The strongest alternative view is that convenience should dominate. A technically elegant, open, or highly customisable system can still fail if setup, maintenance, and retrieval consume more attention than the work itself. The retrieved discussion of personal-growth apps points toward short sessions, guided structure, and low activation energy as practical advantages, though its retention claim should not be treated as independently verified here. On this view, the best tool is the one that reliably gets used, even when it is imperfect.