If “such techniques usually give a boost for some time before dropping back towards baseline”, the obvious way to use this information would seem to be starting a new note-taking system every so often. That way you can keep on taking advantage of the boost, at least as long as you can keep finding new systems (which may eventually become a problem, but even so doesn’t leave you worse off than before). Of course, this does suggest a bound on how many resources you should invest in these new systems.
If “such techniques usually give a boost for some time before dropping back towards baseline”, the obvious way to use this information would seem to be starting a new note-taking system every so often. That way you can keep on taking advantage of the boost, at least as long as you can keep finding new systems (which may eventually become a problem, but even so doesn’t leave you worse off than before). Of course, this does suggest a bound on how many resources you should invest in these new systems.