A Meta-Layer for Notes

People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use

Many bloggers and “life-hackers” have made a full-time job of suggesting how to organize your journal or how to most effectively Write about what you read to internalize texts deeply. We should take this advice seriously insofar as those practices have helped the au... See more

In Matuschak’s view, a finely distilled note is the fundamental unit of knowledge work. But we are generally lousy at taking notes, both because the notes we take give us weak feedback (we may go weeks without returning to a note we have taken, and may not return to it at all) and because we have no role models (do you know anything about anyone el... See more