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I call this "top of the notes" syndrome, from my years in medicine, where every now and then a consultant physician would print something out and say "this is important, it should be on top of the patient's notes" (i.e. clipped on the cover of the physical folder, as opposed to affixed in it, so as to be the "first" thing one sees on grabbing that folder).

Which sounds great, until you have two of those.

And in reality, quite often you'd see folders where the "top of the notes" stuff had more entries than the normal contents of the folder itself. So, ironically people would skip the top stuff and jump straight into the folder as normal.



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