​Do you write better when everything is organised or does chaos actually help?

Genuinely curious because I’ve heard both sides from serious writers.

Some people swear by having everything in order before they write a single word. Notes filed, outline done, research in one place. Others say too much organization kills the spontaneity and they do their best work in controlled chaos.

I’ve gone back and forth on this for years. There are days I think the mess is part of my process and days I lose two hours just finding a note I wrote to myself last week.

Where do you land on this?