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And what NONE of the note taking systems do - not , not , not even the good folks at - is anything to facilitate last crucial step of revisiting.
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What I mean when I say “I’ll make a note of that”: I will capture that idea in a high fidelity format, store it permanently across a global network of distributed servers, systematically distill it down to its very essence, and revisit it regularly for relevance & actionability
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Want a note to pop back up with a frequency that reinforces memory? You have to export to Anki & mess around. Want a note to pop up when you're in a certain place? None of them do it. Want a note you made to show up when you're re-reading the source? Export to .
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We have these devices that we carry around with us 24/7 that have a huge array of sensors built in. Want to attach that metadata to a note? It's all manual. There's so much more progress to be made in knowledge capture & retrieval!
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This is fundamentally a misguided thing to expect of note-taking. You want it to naturally re-present notes when salient, which Roam at least does, not on a conditioning schedule. SRS is a narrow model for specific memorization needs. That should not be a general feature.
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Maybe you mean it's unrealistic to expect of a tool for close-reading of text (while seated at a laptop)? Roam does that, but note-taking, at least for me, occurs in many more contexts.
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I’m questioning a very specific assumption in the notes world: that it’s useful to have general review behaviors detached from any actual need. It’s an artificial feature of certain learning models, not a natural feature of cognition.
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