# Greg Morris - The Simplest Path ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Greg Morris]] - Full Title: Greg Morris - The Simplest Path - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.gr36.com/2023/03/03/the-simplest-path.html ## Highlights - As Ryder Carol, the inventor of the bullet journal, put it, “the more apps, the more gaps”. James Clear, writer of Atomic Habits, also defaults to one place to store everything. Otherwise, your system falls down due to the need to remember where you saved it in the first place. Defeating the whole point. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1591632101/22170315)) - If truth be told, I could never find one digital place that ticked all my boxes. Instead of remembering the information, I had to remember where I put it. So to cut out all the wasted energy overcoming the resistance in my system, I reverted to perhaps the oldest tool known to man – a writing instrument, and somewhere to use it. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1591632101/22170317)) - It doesn’t really matter where your place is, but by having one place, you are doing yourself a favour. Reducing your cognitive load and giving yourself the best chance at achieving your desired goal. It might be getting tasks checked off, it might be saving ideas, or it might just be the occasional scribble. Take the right path and choose one with the least resistance. You’ll thank yourself for it. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1591632101/22170318))