[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":79},["ShallowReactive",2],{"idea-shower-thought-search-engines":3,"related-shower-thought-search-engines":41},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cardSize":27,"category":28,"date":29,"description":30,"extension":31,"featured":32,"meta":33,"navigation":34,"path":35,"readingTime":36,"seo":37,"stem":38,"updated":39,"__hash__":40},"ideas\u002Fideas\u002Fshower-thought-search-engines.md","Search engines peaked in 2012",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":23},"minimark",[9,13,16],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Remember when you could Google something and get a straightforward answer on the first result? Now the first result is an ad, the second is a listicle written by AI, the third is a Reddit thread where someone asks the same question and the top reply says \"just Google it.\"",[10,14,15],{},"We went backwards.",[17,18,19],"ul",{},[20,21,22],"li",{},"Mohan",{"title":24,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":26},"",3,[],"small","Miscellaneous","2026-03-20","A shower thought about how Google used to just give you the answer.","md",false,{},true,"\u002Fideas\u002Fshower-thought-search-engines",1,{"title":5,"description":30},"ideas\u002Fshower-thought-search-engines",null,"IjJHiWS5emyQ7HLDxfNe0TPB51tXQ0zBS56XcErakWk",[42],{"id":43,"title":44,"body":45,"cardSize":71,"category":28,"date":72,"description":73,"extension":31,"featured":32,"meta":74,"navigation":34,"path":75,"readingTime":25,"seo":76,"stem":77,"updated":39,"__hash__":78},"ideas\u002Fideas\u002Fwhy-i-still-use-a-notebook.md","Ruminating on Why I Still Use a Paper Notebook",{"type":7,"value":46,"toc":69},[47,50,53,56,59,62,65],[10,48,49],{},"I have tried every note-taking app. Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes, Bear, Roam Research, plain text files. I keep coming back to a cheap paper notebook from Muji.",[10,51,52],{},"The reason is not nostalgia. Paper forces me to think before I write. With a digital tool, I can type faster than I can think, which means I end up with a lot of words and not many ideas. With a pen, I have to choose my words because crossing things out is messy.",[10,54,55],{},"Paper also has no notifications. No links to click. No formatting options to fiddle with. It is just me and the thought.",[10,57,58],{},"My system is simple. One notebook at a time. Date at the top of each page. Write whatever. No organization system, no color coding, no fancy bullet journal layouts. When it is full, I flip through it once, tear out the pages with ideas worth keeping, and transfer those to a digital file. The rest gets recycled.",[10,60,61],{},"About 80% of what I write in notebooks is trash. But the 20% that survives the flip-through tends to be the real stuff. The ideas that passed the \"still interesting after two weeks\" test.",[10,63,64],{},"The digital tools are for storage. Paper is for thinking.",[17,66,67],{},[20,68,22],{},{"title":24,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":70},[],"medium","2026-03-05","Digital tools are better for everything except thinking.",{},"\u002Fideas\u002Fwhy-i-still-use-a-notebook",{"title":44,"description":73},"ideas\u002Fwhy-i-still-use-a-notebook","L6dIdvdpoXLhysL5C9YTOGt6DqnySV39CsMb-Zhm_l0",1776214201870]