I found it interesting to consider that the people who leave lasting impact and legacy on the world, don’t have extensive note-taking or organisation systems (like I am anxiously given to do) or whatever else. That’s not what we remember them for.
Maybe a drive to “do” and “build” - and actually doing something about that - is far more important... I’m probably not articulating this properly.
If I think about writers and scientists, I think about their archives being homed at universities and such. I'm always kind of amazed that certain artists (writers, painters, etc) end up with volumes of letters that sometimes get published after they've passed on.
I don't know if we'll have that rich vein to mine with everyone doing things in computers. Sometimes you'll get some emails from a dead author, but letters and notes? It'll be interesting to see what variation of material gets preserved when we look back in 20-50 years.
Maybe a drive to “do” and “build” - and actually doing something about that - is far more important... I’m probably not articulating this properly.