- it can be a good use of your time to iterate your personal systems; see [[2025-01-28 becoming a morning person - in defense of tinkering with your tools]]. - however, the more information you collect, the more data / files you have to update to assimilate into the new version of your system. - so don’t try to! - *for example*, if you decide to start tracking the directors of films you’ve watched, you don’t have to back-fill dozens or hundreds of movie entries at once. - if you decide to start using tags instead of links, you don’t have to update thousands of notes to reflect this change immediately. - you don’t need to organize every photo you’ve ever taken or digitize every written journal entry in one massive update. - choose a timeframe or otherwise limit your scope when making system updates, otherwise you will end up trying to boil an ocean. >[!note]- *note* >major update [[2026-07-26]]