term-evergreen-notes

evergreen-notes-should-challenge-you

This term came from working note about evergreen notes

Concept-oriented... with the title as an API

They should working-note-should-surprise-you, and you should basically enter into a conversation with them

From book - How to take Smart Notes

^whole-page

They are written in your own wording, unlike literature notes, which can be the exact phrases from the literature and have bibliographic information

From video-interview-about-how-to-take-notes

Notes should not just be surprising, but they should also be challenging

Evergreen notes should be context-free

Page 85: Feynman said that to ensure he understood something, he needed to give an introductory lecture on it. Reading with a pen in hand is similar to that. You are continually attempting to write permanent notes that function context-free, as if for a stranger... because you will be that stranger in 6 months. ^permanent-notes-are-like-small-lectures

Continual reflection - revisiting and adding - makes Dan Luu's blog post more like an evergreen note

I think it's unfortunate that you don't get to hear about the downsides of systems without backchannel chatter, so here are things I did that are pretty obvious mistakes in retrospect. I'll add to this when something else becomes obvious in retrospect. ^stuff-i-screwed-up-evergreen

At 1:26:30 Roger talks about how having a Proto choice, basically here's what I would do right now if I had to make the choice right now, allows you to collect disconfirming evidence. There is a lot of data but it will tune due to debit evidence against or for
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disconfirming information^proto-choice-is-like-evergreen-note


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