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Notational Intelligence | thesephist.com
Rethinking Notetaking: Notes as Knowledge Building Blocks
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
there are in fact many ways of doing intelligence, because intelligence is an active process, not just a mental capacity.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
“The goal is not to take notes — the goal is to think effectively,” Matuschak writes. “Better questions are “what practices can help me reliably develop insights over time?” [and] “how can I shepherd my attention effectively?”
Casey Newton • Why Note-Taking Apps Don't Make Us Smarter
Good notes should behave like memory
At its best, a good collection of notes is like a powerful extended memory. It helps us quickly answer questions like, “What did this person tell me?” “What should I remember about this topic?” “What things am I currently working on?” We think tens of thousands of thoughts every single day, and the job of a good
thesephist.com • Incremental Note-Taking | thesephist.com
By using hundreds of written notes as training data, we can configure a model to learn to be the note-taker, to internalize their thought patterns, to adopt their writing style and interests, to approximate their mannerisms and responses. After several months of disciplined note-taking, the aligned model becomes powerful enough to accurately extrap... See more