I think the technique is relevant to basically all cognition, but working on well-defined problems is useful for the “figure out if it’s actually helping” and “fine-tune your approach to ensure you’re using it usefully”.
(When I use this technique for more open-ended problems I think it’s still useful to have two screen-pages open, one of which is still more for rough-unstructured notes and one of which is more for “here’s my distillation of my current understanding of the problem.”
I think the technique is relevant to basically all cognition, but working on well-defined problems is useful for the “figure out if it’s actually helping” and “fine-tune your approach to ensure you’re using it usefully”.
(When I use this technique for more open-ended problems I think it’s still useful to have two screen-pages open, one of which is still more for rough-unstructured notes and one of which is more for “here’s my distillation of my current understanding of the problem.”