Now thats just a habitual thing. Good muscle to build honestly.

I love stumbling across thoughts from yeeears ago and cringing

I do use it too. But i have like a thousand movies and shows catalogued there and a move isnt convenient.

Also the rating system is meh on letterboxd.

I like seeing metacritic and IMDb ratings. Out if 10 instead of 5 is better for my brain.

But i do appreciate much about letterboxd. Including thr articles they put out.

Similar to you, I've found that writing the notes helps me to remember stuff, but I found that my on-the-fly remembering really improved when I started to make my notes more findable by the use of tags. It doesn't even need to be a formal tagging system — even just including "#tag" in the note body helps me to find things better.

The key to this approach is asking yourself in what context you might want to refer back to a past note, and to not just add a scattershot of possibly relevant tags. For example, if I'm writing down my thoughts about a movie that I want to talk about to a friend, I might write "I should ask #Becky what she thinks about this", or "this reminds me of what #Sarah was saying about #thing" (if #thing is a topic I've written other notes on). I found that doing this became easier over time, and this was reinforced by the fact that I found myself referring back to my notes more often (which also helped me to make more connections between thoughts I'd been having)

Edit: To give an example relevant to the original post, I might tag a note about a good movie with #movie (I don't need to qualify that with "favourite", because that is too specific, and realistically, if I'm writing about a movie, it's probably one that I like), or a brief note about a great restaurant might be tagged with #goodfood and #city

I do. A looot. Especially recent notes. Like last week.

I literally just write 30k words on hallmark movies on my notes app lol.

Also I just need to remember one word of any thought and I can search and find it

Once you put smth in writing you have better odds of remembering it.

Without looking at my notes I can now say my favourite movies include:

Arrival Children of Men Paprika The Witch Dr Strangelove Memento Kicking and Screaming Mulholland Drive

Hahaha yep. I mean I have to set some time for a project that big thoand now I'll move it to a word doc