My Brain Isn’t Hierarchical
Concept · cognition · personal_truth · visibility: publishable
The reason every prestige productivity tool has failed her, stated as a hard constraint: ‘I don’t do well with very hierarchical things like Notion.’ Her dealbreakers with Obsidian — a separate file per note (‘HAAAATE’), slow mobile loads, plugin rot — all trace to the same mismatch. And the physical-card rule that falls out of it: ‘don’t color-code by domain — your brain doesn’t think hierarchically, domains overlap.’ The system has to be spatial and relational, not a tree, or she bounces off it.
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source: Systems architecture for yourself (2026-01-12) · extraction: auto (schema v3.1)