Oh I absolutely give the card an index as soon as it’s created. That’s always, always the first thing I write on a card. So there’s no trouble linking things before they’re sorted.
The thing about creating cards without sorting them is,
They end up in order of recency. Recency is a good heuristic for how likely I am to want to look at a card.
They’re “mostly sorted” anyway. I always create, for example, card 2a after cand 2, and card 2b after card 2a, etc. So I usually know it’ll be later in the stack. I just can’t find the exact location as deterministically as I otherwise could.
Oh I absolutely give the card an index as soon as it’s created. That’s always, always the first thing I write on a card. So there’s no trouble linking things before they’re sorted.
The thing about creating cards without sorting them is,
They end up in order of recency. Recency is a good heuristic for how likely I am to want to look at a card.
They’re “mostly sorted” anyway. I always create, for example, card 2a after cand 2, and card 2b after card 2a, etc. So I usually know it’ll be later in the stack. I just can’t find the exact location as deterministically as I otherwise could.