People who spend too much of their time consuming information passively.
In response to the Information Age, they’ve fallen into the trap of mindlessly trying to collect everything—meaning they don’t have any time for the actual thinking!
Contrast with Note-makers
More thoughts on note-takers
At their worst, our notes are overwhelming distraction-riddled collections of thoughts we’ve never read that actually act as this static NOISE that distracts us and discourages us from spending time with more meaningful notes.- From [What is a note](./What is a note.md) This is the Collector’s Fallacy and it’s practiced by the information hoarders, so scared to lose some drop of water from the never-ending information stream, that they never have any time to actually drink from it.- From [What is a note](./What is a note.md) Those people sure have a lot of notes. A lot of “containers of thoughts”. It’s just too bad they’ve never enjoyed them.- From [What is a note](./What is a note.md) Related words: Passive thinkers, over-summarizers, over-collectors, Collector’s Fallacy, Content Regurgitators