• Currently Scrapbox needs a title on the system.
  • When I first started using it, I thought, “It’s inconvenient to need a title, I should be able to write right away without a title.”
  • I still think there should be a way to output that kind of information, but it’s being circumvented by operations.
    • Often, I “post to Facebook first, then if I have something to add, I continue with a comment under that post and post it to Scrapbox after the gushing has stopped.”
    • No big deal if you start writing without a title.
      • It will only be automatically saved with the title Untitled.
      • Duplicate titles are automatically assigned a branch number, so there is no need to worry about conflicts.
    • Ctrl+T will enter the date and time, which can be used as a title instead.
      • I set the format to my preferred 2019-01-28.
      • More information than Untitled.
      • These days, I often add nodal point of thought
        • I can’t come up with a title because of the dense mixture of multiple ideas that have not yet been clearly separated.
        • So for now, I’ll just put the information “This is a thought node, written as of 2019-01-28” in the title.
        • It’s less likely to be read back as it is, so keep it actively bracketed so that it emerges connected to something unexpected in the future.
        • When you stand back in time and look at it from a different perspective, you can better organize your thoughts.
    • Pages with tasteless titles are not read back.
    • The title should be something that inspires you to read it.
    • But thinking about giving it a good title from the start raises the bar of output.

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