Is My Note-taking System, Actually a Productivity Killer?

I was randomly going through some videos on how can I improve my note taking skills, and I saw a video on YouTube mentioning people like Elon Musk, Naval Ravikant don't really take notes as in we do with different note-taking system.

Rather they prefer the raw chaos, and do a kind of public note-taking on X instead of maintaining a common place book or a fancy journal.

In one of the interviews, Naval mentioned, Note-taking is like clicking photographs while travelling – you capturing the moment, but not really enjoying it. He emphasizes our memory should be capable enough to distinguish what is important to us. He also puts a lot of emphasis on driving knowledge from the basics rather than archiving it.

After that, I went ahead and used Grok to do a quick research and got to know that achievers like Elon, Naval focus more on doing things that are import than archiving things they would never need.

The key takeaway from me over here is to keep things very minimal, and to keep only things that are needed.

I completely understand I am not these great people, my mind works differently than how their minds perform. So I can not directly copy-paste their style. Instead of that, I can revisit my ways of working, check where things are going out of the hand, fix those and re-evaluate in a few days.