How do you avoid losing knowledge over time?

Question

Over the last few years, I tried Notion, Linear, ClickUp and others, both for personal and work-related projects. Tasks and wiki/documents in these platforms always leave me bothered because they feel disconnected. It's easy to lose track of the direction you are going when you are 4-5 levels deep in tasks. Even worse, they make it easy to lose knowledge unless you have a lot of discipline. For example, when you add context and details to a task that don't seem relevant enough to anything else, so they are not copied over into a wiki. Then 2-3 months later, when you do need that knowledge for something else, it's buried under hundreds of other tasks and completely lost.Do you have any advice on how to avoid losing stuff all over the place?

ElPrimoDeMarx · Accepted Answer

Not to sound old-fashioned, but two or three well-organized notebooks with a color code should do the trick. It's not just about the tangible experience of seeing them somewhere; you have to force yourself to summarize. I've even gone so far as to write links by hand to save space. Categorize the notebooks and segment them by task. If you want to take it a step further, you can use different colored markers in the notebooks according to priority.
Obviously, you could do this in Word or whatever software is currently available. But the manual act of writing and the need to summarize helps the brain remember things for much longer.
Cheers, sorry for being old. ;P