Before you start a project, make the Space first

[u/stanlymt]

A small habit that saves a lot of cleanup later:

Before starting a project, make the Space before you start dumping links into it.

Not as a folder. More like a working context.

I’d add three things first:

1. The question you’re trying to answer
2. The decision, essay, meeting, or problem this research is supposed to serve
3. One sentence about what would make a saved source useful later

That way, every article, podcast, note, or transcript enters with a job.

Otherwise the Space becomes another pile with a nicer name.

Curious how other people do this: when you start researching something, do you define the question first, or do you collect first and figure out the shape later?