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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
Sorry: mu. I'm not interested in using my notes this way. This fitness function isn't uncorrelated with my goals, but it's a poor basis vector. I really don't identify with the goals of almost anyone who writes about notes. More and more I feel I need to abandon the term "note."
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
(This sounds a touch uncharitable, but please interpret it charitably) The most common goal for note systems (particularly e.g. BASB) seems to be "I want to be able to rapidly write a short Medium essay from excerpts and jottings." That's fine! It's not my goal.
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Nat Eliason
@nateliason
I totally get that argument, I think it only applies though if you're mainly collecting other peoples ideas vs. making your own ideas more navigable.
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
At the margin, and at least for me, the bottleneck to producing powerful ideas does not appear to be the navigability of my prior ideas. Maybe once I write evergreen notes for a few years, that will become true. It'll be interesting to see.
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