# It’s ok to demote or promote notes In a [[§Slipbox Systems]], after you label a note as a “stub” or “evergreen” there is often a lot of mental resistance to changing it unless you significantly change the note itself. It’s totally fine to look at a note with fresh eyes and reclassify it. Allowing yourself to incrementally change the system or criteria itself is important. I might even go so far as to argue that note-momentum is more important than correct categorization. [[Notes, like hamsters, need to be handled]]