The popular Obsidian Dataview plugin enables that and much more (instead of using Bases)

https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview

That's what "The Personal MBA" book did

If you take the goat first, the wolf will eat the cabbage. Reread the description - It's a twist on the old problem, to make it harder for bots to solve.

I've seen a post similar to this on multiple HackerNews threads over the past few years. It's likely part of the training set now.

Tech debt in our own brains.

> In a sense, it is the exact opposite of what the article describe: the system _prevents you_ to just jote a quick note and forget about it

Create daily notes (tied to the day you wrote them) or transient notes (tied to a concept) as scratch areas to quickly dump your thoughts onto the page.

Then return later when you have the time and focus to explicitly process your notes - either discarding daily/transient notes that are no longer interesting, or growing them into evergreen notes with sufficient detail and linking. Make sure it's easy to list all your daily and transient notes in an "inbox".

[1] https://archive.is/wu1M9