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representing yourself and whatever it is you're using :)

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."

(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.

My goal is: "I want to produce novel, powerful ideas." A computer-supported thinking system is helpful insofar as it supports that. But it's hard to evaluate those systems empirically because such ideas are rare. People who blog about note-taking systems don't produce them.

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Roam Research

@RoamResearch

Apr 29, 2020

Counterexamples: Many greats discussed process, while also building tools and systems that were hugely influential Doug Engelbart - Augmenting The Human Intellect Rich Hickey - Simple Made Easy, Design Composition and Performance, etc etc

- Age of Essay etc.

Theres a way you can say all those meta-thoughts about process are "blogging about note taking systems" If you say they aren't, seems like "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Writing is a tool for thinking Changing how you write changes how you think.