Evergreen notes
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Evergreen notes
Permanent notes, on the other hand, are written in a way that can still be understood even when you have forgotten the context they are taken from.
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For modern, professional notetaking, a note is a “knowledge building block”—a discrete unit of information interpreted through your unique perspective and stored outside your head.
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Evergreen notes turn ideas into objects that you can manipulate · 2022
Evergreen notes allow you to think about complex ideas by building them up from smaller composable ideas.
My evergreen notes have titles that distill each idea in a succinct and memorable way, that I can use in a... See more