He closed the word processor.
The PDF That Wouldn't Stay Put
On Day 12, he had a rough PDF: 60 pages, ugly, full of [[brackets]] and #tags . bob doto a system for writing pdf
Bob held up an index card. "Don't write a PDF. Write a system for writing a PDF. The document is just the ghost that appears when you stop moving the notes." He closed the word processor
He found three orphaned notes—ideas he loved but that didn't serve the reader. He moved them to a new folder: atomic notes that grow themselves.
"Not this time," he whispered.
Moral: A well-structured writing system turns a daunting PDF into a garden of interconnected, atomic notes that grow themselves.