I'm not sure when, but at some point in my life I started using the philosophy of 'if you can do it on a pad of paper with a pencil or in notepad on your computer, don't upgrade until you NEED something more complicated.' Because then the focus is on Doing The Thing rather on Gaining The Tools. I honestly believe you shouldn't upgrade your tools until those tools are holding you back. If you know enough to know they're holding you back, then you know what tools you actually need, too.
Actually...I think in programming it's called 'lazy initialization'? If I recall (it's been a while), you don't allocate memory or anything until you are just about to actually use it. On non-dedicated systems it helps with startup time and cost, in a computing sense, but I have 500% adopted it for life because I'm all about lowering the friction of doing a thing. When I have a passing fancy, that's the time to buy the cheap-but-good option to get me started and help me realize I'm not actually long-term interested.
But a more specific example: I still start like 90% of my writing projects in gdocs (instead of notepad b/c cloud saving, but before the cloud it was absolutely notepad. I have found so many little printed story stubs in the notepad font) before I move them to Scrivener, because most of my stub ideas just...don't need Scrivener until they hit a certain point. It's overkill right up until the point where I actively need Scrivener or I'm going to start pulling out my hair. There is no inbetween. XD
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Date: 2022-10-25 01:23 am (UTC)Actually...I think in programming it's called 'lazy initialization'? If I recall (it's been a while), you don't allocate memory or anything until you are just about to actually use it. On non-dedicated systems it helps with startup time and cost, in a computing sense, but I have 500% adopted it for life because I'm all about lowering the friction of doing a thing. When I have a passing fancy, that's the time to buy the cheap-but-good option to get me started and help me realize I'm not actually long-term interested.
But a more specific example: I still start like 90% of my writing projects in gdocs (instead of notepad b/c cloud saving, but before the cloud it was absolutely notepad. I have found so many little printed story stubs in the notepad font) before I move them to Scrivener, because most of my stub ideas just...don't need Scrivener until they hit a certain point. It's overkill right up until the point where I actively need Scrivener or I'm going to start pulling out my hair. There is no inbetween. XD
...the end. Lol.