# Duly Noted  ## Metadata - Author: [[Jorge Arango and Howard Rheingold]] - Full Title: Duly Noted - Category: #books ## Highlights - Notes mattered to Darwin. And he wasn’t alone: Leonardo da Vinci, Richard Feynman, and Virginia Woolf were among many brilliant thinkers and creators who worked out ideas using notes. ([Location 120](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=120)) - As you’ll learn in this book, there’s a key difference between taking notes and making notes: the former is about capturing ideas for recall, whereas the latter is about generating new ideas. ([Location 126](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=126)) ### Thinking with Computers - Objectors usually raise one or several of these points: Building and maintaining a note-taking system takes time and effort. You could be doing other things instead, including writing. Note-taking systems won’t directly produce publishable artifacts. ([Location 151](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=151)) - What digital notes can do is help you think better. When you take notes, you explore the scope and boundaries of ideas. You think differently about things when considering how they might relate to other things. The point isn’t to stash ideas for later or to have a machine think for you, but to create a space that lets you think more effectively. ([Location 158](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=158)) ### A Garden for Thinking - gardening provides value beyond mere utility. It’s a contemplative practice that calls for patience, stewardship, and discipline ([Location 167](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=167)) - making the fragments easy to find, and making easier the tentative sequencing and juxtaposing and comparing. ([Location 176](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=176)) - Historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author David McCullough said, “Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.” ([Location 178](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=178)) - thinking with digital notes boils down to three simple rules: Make short notes. Connect your notes. Nurture your notes. ([Location 192](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=192)) ### What’s in the Book? - Chapter 1, “Notes Are for Thinking,” ([Location 199](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=199)) - Chapter 2, “Make Short Notes,” ([Location 200](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=200)) - Chapter 3, “Connect Your Notes,” ([Location 202](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=202)) - Chapter 4, “Plan for a Knowledge Garden,” ([Location 203](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=203)) - Chapter 5, “Don’t Let Ideas Get Away,” ([Location 205](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=205)) - Chapter 6, “Put Everything in Its Right Place,” ([Location 206](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=206)) - Chapter 7, “Spark Insights,” ([Location 208](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=208)) - Chapter 8, “Share Your Thinking,” ([Location 209](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=209)) - Chapter 9, “Tend the Garden,” ([Location 211](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=211)) - Chapter 10, “Think with Other Minds,” ([Location 212](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=212)) ### Notes Are for Thinking #### What Are Notes For? - dictionary defines a note as “a brief record of facts, topics, or thoughts, written down as an aid to memory.” ([Location 274](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=274)) ##### Remembering ##### Transcribing ##### Recording ##### Learning - Learning entails more than just remembering facts. For one thing, you must connect ideas at different levels of abstraction. ([Location 296](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=296)) ##### Researching - looking to synthesize what you learn so you can make better decisions. ([Location 301](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=301)) ##### Generating - your notebook becomes a collaborator in the thinking process. ([Location 305](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=305)) ##### Planning - Communicating ([Location 316](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=316)) ##### Fidgeting - the primary benefit of scribbling things down is keeping your attention focused; ([Location 323](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=323)) #### Note-Taking Media ##### Pen and Paper - You can’t search paper or link notes easily to each other. And with bound notebooks, you can only view notes in the order they were written. ([Location 341](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=341))  ## New highlights added September 5, 2024 at 6:09 PM ##### Index Cards > index cards provide one of the advantages of digital notes: random access. ([Location 351](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=351)) ##### Marginalia > Digital marginalia can be more easily referenced, searched, backed up, and synced. ([Location 370](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=370)) ##### Sticky Notes ##### Photographs > press a button and have a record of it in its accuracy, its intricacy, its beauty—have that forever. ([Location 399](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=399)) ##### Audio and Video ##### Digital Notes #### Thinking with Things > you look at things, push-pull-prod-move-etc., add or remove, and otherwise reconfigure. The process reveals possible relationships and patterns—the structure of things as you understand them at the moment. ([Location 457](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=457)) > To emphasize the point, notes aren’t merely a way to record your thinking; they’re part of where thinking happens. They are the means through which you understand and make sense of things. ([Location 508](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=508)) ### Make Short Notes > Paper-based media trained you to take monolithic notes: long narrative streams of things you thought and heard. ([Location 570](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=570)) #### Write One Note for Each Concept #### Essential Distinctions ##### Note-Taking vs. Note-Making > Note-taking is when you take notes to remember what you’ve heard or read. ([Location 638](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=638)) > Note-making is something else entirely: instead of highlighting or capturing ideas from an existing source—a text, lecture, video, etc.—you write down what you’re thinking to make sense of your ideas. ([Location 641](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=641)) > ”you write down what you’re thinking,“ but it’s more correct to say that you think by writing things down. ([Location 645](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=645)) > Instead, you’re thinking with and on the paper. ([Location 646](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=646)) > The gist here is that these are different mindsets. You take notes to learn and recall but make notes to generate. ([Location 648](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=648)) ##### Evergreen vs. Transient Notes > We refer to these notes as transient: they’re useful only for a short time. ([Location 655](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=655)) > evergreen notes remain relevant over time. ([Location 661](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=661)) > Matuschak’s five principles for writing evergreen notes are an excellent conceptual foundation: Evergreen notes should be atomic; that is, each note should focus on one idea. They should be concept-oriented, meaning each note should focus on a concept rather than a book, author, project, etc. They should be densely linked; that is, they should have lots of links to other notes. You should resist the urge to layer on them a top-down structure, since they might be relevant to more than one category. You should write them for yourself, not for publication. (Of course, they can serve as the basis for things you publish later.) ([Location 661](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=661)) ##### Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Structures > Resist the urge to set up rigid structural distinctions up front. Instead, create schemas that allow for bottom-up structures to emerge. ([Location 683](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=683)) ##### Present You vs. Future You > The things that seem important to you now might be less relevant to future you. Conversely, future you will be more attuned to signals that present you misses. ([Location 696](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=696)) #### Minimally Viable Notes > You’re not thinking and then writing; you’re thinking as you write. ([Location 702](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=702)) > A transient note can be very simple: a few words to jog your memory will do. But evergreen notes require a bit more elaboration. ([Location 703](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=703)) > MVNs provide the key data with enough context to tell you what they’re about. Besides a clear name, they often include a call to action, next steps, and a reference to where you came across the idea. Mine include a title, the date of capture, a source reference (e.g., the book where I found the idea), and at least one tag that identifies the note as part of a broader set. ([Location 708](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=708)) ##### Naming Your Notes > MAKE TITLES DISTINCTIVE ([Location 771](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=771)) > MAKE TITLES SHORT, BUT NOT TOO SHORT ([Location 775](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=775)) > USE PATTERNS—AND STICK TO THEM ([Location 780](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=780)) > she suggested the concept of “thick description,” which I understand to mean adding enough context to our notes so that we know what they refer to. ([Location 813](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=813)) > Thick description doesn’t mean writing deeply every single time about every single thing. It’s about choosing the things that in the future will have sufficient ambiguity to be meaningless unless you give the context around it. ([Location 815](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=815)) > Can you return to this note six months from now and pick back up where you left off? ([Location 823](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=823)) ### Connect Your Notes > Thinking in terms of granular, linked ideas will nudge you to broaden your understanding and spark unexpected insights. ([Location 856](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=856)) > Premature organization limits information’s usefulness. But you don’t have to commit to an organization scheme up front. Digital note-taking enables you to organize ideas freely so you can find multiple, different paths to knowledge. Consider how Wikipedia works. ([Location 860](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=860)) > Consider how Wikipedia works. Each page includes links to other pages. There isn’t a definitive set of folders or top-down categories; instead, each page is part of a network of interrelated ideas. ([Location 862](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=862)) #### Hypertext Note-Taking > In 1945, Vannevar Bush published “As We May Think,” an influential article that argued for nonlinear information management systems.1 Ted Nelson coined the word hypertext in 1965, framing it as a means for dealing with complex sets of interrelated information that could be elaborated and annotated.2 ([Location 876](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=876)) > “Such a system could grow indefinitely, gradually including more and more of the world’s written knowledge.” ([Location 888](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=888)) #### Links and Nodes: The Basic Elements of Hypertexts > hypertexts are composed of nodes (ideas, texts, images, videos, etc.) and links between them. ([Location 911](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=911)) > A hyperlink is a formal connection between one item in a hypertext and another item. These connections have an origin and a destination. The origin is often a word or phrase, and the destination is another document, note, web page, etc. ([Location 914](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=914)) > Links can point to other notes in the app or any resource that provides a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), the addressing scheme used on the web. ([Location 917](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=917)) > Nodes refer to the origin and destination objects (pages, documents, notes, or whatever) that are joined by links. ([Location 921](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=921)) > Some note-taking apps also allow you to link to specific sections of notes, such as paragraphs. These more granular destinations are known in systems like Obsidian and Roam as blocks. ([Location 924](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=924)) ##### But Can You Do It Using Paper? #### Types of Links ##### Wikilinks > Wikilinks are like web links in that you select a word or phrase and point it to another note ([Location 981](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=981)) ##### Implicit Links > implicit links aren’t intentionally defined by the author. Instead, the system creates them based on metadata such as a note’s title or creation date. ([Location 984](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=984)) ##### Backlinks > all the notes that have links pointing to the note you’re currently examining. These “backlinks” ([Location 992](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=992)) > Block References ([Location 998](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=998)) > Block references are explicit links, but instead of pointing to a whole document or note, they point to blocks ([Location 999](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=999)) ##### Aliases > These are pointers to the original item—sometimes with an alternate spelling—that “stand in” for the original in other places such as lists, folders and other notes. While they appear and behave like the original, they’re placeholders that merely represent the original in a separate context. ([Location 1004](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1004)) ##### Embeddings > Rather than “taking you” to the destination document, an embedding inserts the destination’s content (whether an entire note or a block) into the body of the originating note. Changes to the destination are reflected in the embedded version. ([Location 1013](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1013)) ##### Spatial Relations > you can also define relationships by laying out notes on a map and moving some closer to others. Proximity suggests connections; you can relate ideas by clustering them. ([Location 1018](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1018)) > [[^]] When you type these characters, the app shows a drop-down that lets you pick a block (or paragraph) within the current note. ([Location 1027](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1027)) #### Tips for Effective Hypertext Note-Taking ##### Make Notes Modular > Rather than starting a long note to capture everything, create a separate note for each kind of animal. You can also create a note called Animals of East Africa where you list—and link—the various animals you read about. ([Location 1054](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1054)) ##### Rewire Yourself to Link During Capture > One of the hardest things about hypertext note-taking is getting used to the idea that you’re not writing a single monolithic note but a set of related notes. ([Location 1060](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1060)) > As you start typing your central idea, related ideas might occur to you. Rather than typing them out then and there, you can start a separate note by linking to it inline. ([Location 1061](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1061)) > Don’t write down the whole idea then and there. Instead, type the left double brackets to start a wikilink. Then you can quickly click to the new note to capture that thought in a separate—but now linked—note. With time, doing this will become second nature. ([Location 1063](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1063)) ##### Use Aliases for Cleaner Links > One of the things I love about curating TheBrain is that daily I’m thrust into [Daniel Kahneman’s] System Two thinking of: is this worth remembering? If so, what is it? Where do I put it? Because I don’t have any orphan thoughts in my Brain—at least not intentionally—everything is hooked like a Christmas ornament onto some branch. And then it’s like, “Okay, so what do I call it? What is it connected to? What can I learn from it?” ([Location 1086](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1086)) ### Plan for a Knowledge Garden > gardening shares important characteristics with knowledge management: Like seeds, ideas start small and bloom if given proper care. Like plants, stewarding ideas takes sustained, disciplined effort. Both efforts create nourishment, pleasure, satisfaction, and fulfillment. Neither is fully under your control; both types of gardens have lives of their own, and the best you can do is set up structures that allow things to grow organically and then tend to them. ([Location 1148](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1148)) #### A Process for Thinking with Notes > The best way to think about the system’s components is to lay them out according to the role they play in one of six sequential stages. They are the following: Notice Capture Sort Retain Nurture Share Each stage calls for different tools, workflows, practices, and mindsets. ([Location 1156](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1156)) > There are several ways you can practice becoming more attentive: Configure your devices to respect your attention. The easiest thing you can do is mute your notifications. Most of the messages you get on your phone can wait. Set aside times of the day as regular “quiet time.” I wrote the bulk of this book between 5 and 7 in the morning, before most other members of my household were awake. Learn to meditate. Meditation is the best means I’ve found to observe my mind. Among its many advantages, meditation makes you more aware of your state of attention in a variety of contexts. ([Location 1209](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1209)) ##### Capture > This practice still requires knowing where to capture different types of thoughts. ... Whatever the case, you must develop the habit of capturing thoughts at the moment—and determining the best way of doing so—without thinking too much about it. ([Location 1224](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1224)) ##### Sort > At this point, you’ve freed your mind from remembering these ideas, but you’re burdened with remembering where everything is stored. ([Location 1234](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1234)) > Some notes will be reminders to take some action in the future, in which case they should go into your “to do” management app. ([Location 1242](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1242)) ##### Retain > With a bit of foresight, you’ll also create conditions for ideas to connect with other ideas down the line. ([Location 1249](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1249)) ##### Nurture > The note for this concept could become evergreen, which means that you add to it as you learn more information over time. ([Location 1257](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1257)) > You want to be able to revisit these notes so you can recombine and recontextualize them to produce new ideas. ([Location 1259](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1259)) ##### Share > To further the garden metaphor, these are the “fruits” of your work: ideas that (hopefully) add to the world’s store of knowledge or beauty. ([Location 1267](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1267)) #### A Model Knowledge Garden > Depending on what you’re trying to capture, it could be a camera or audio recorder. More likely, you’ll capture thoughts with a combination of apps and tools. This leads to thoughts and data spread out over different apps, notebooks, devices, and more. That’s risky—you may have externalized the thought, but now you need to remember where you stored it. To avoid this, set up inboxes to consolidate these notes. ([Location 1285](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1285)) > The unified list of emails is one of several inboxes I triage during the day. ([Location 1297](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1297)) > One of my operating principles is to reduce the number of inboxes. I do this by configuring my capture apps to save (or copy) new notes or documents into an “everything bucket” application. ([Location 1303](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1303)) > DEVONthink is also my primary knowledge store. This is where most of my content awaits re-discovery. ([Location 1308](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1308)) > DEVONthink also indexes my evergreen notes in Obsidian. ([Location 1310](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1310)) > When I’m working on a blog post or presentation, I go into this repository and search for content related to whatever I’m writing about. ([Location 1311](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1311)) > The process is aided by my foresight in tagging content items and DEVONthink’s AI features. ([Location 1313](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1313)) > You can explore different configurations, save snapshots, roll back changes, and jump to linked ideas. In short, using computers to steward and develop ideas extends your cognitive abilities in powerful new ways. ([Location 1318](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1318)) > The point is that working with ideas is a multistep process, and each step calls for different tools and techniques. ([Location 1322](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1322)) > As a result of extensive work with this technique a kind of secondary memory will arise, an alter ego with who we can constantly communicate. It proves to be similar to our own memory in that it does not have a thoroughly constructed order of its entirety, not hierarchy, and most certainly no linear structure like a book. Just because of this, it gets its own life, independent of its author. ([Location 1343](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1343)) #### Core Principles for Designing Your Garden > In particular, your system’s components should be trustworthy, open, and addressable. ([Location 1353](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1353)) ##### Trustworthy Components > Your note repositories should be stable. Things should be where and how you left them when you return. ([Location 1358](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1358)) > Your apps should respect your privacy. Ideas may be confidential; you should only share them intentionally. ([Location 1363](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1363)) ##### Easy In, Easy Out > Note-taking applications should also make capture fast and easy. You should have as little friction as possible between ideation and capture. ([Location 1369](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1369)) > You can’t trust a system that keeps your notes trapped. Look for ways to export your information should you decide to switch. ([Location 1372](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1372)) > Identify one note that draws your attention, perhaps because it contains an important idea or is something you’d like to elaborate. ([Location 1379](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1379)) > Enter a title that describes the idea succinctly yet clearly. Focus your note on capturing one idea rather than several. ([Location 1381](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1381)) > You can revisit this note as you learn more about the concept of evergreen notes over time. ([Location 1383](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1383)) ##### Addressable Notes > Your knowledge garden’s components should make using links quick and easy. You must be able to navigate easily between related ideas, ([Location 1389](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1389)) > But I must emphasize that achieving critical mass takes discipline and time. For a while, capturing and organizing thoughts will feel like busy work. But this work has value in itself: the fact you’re externalizing thoughts will make you more conscientious about how you think. ([Location 1402](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1402)) ### Don’t Let Ideas Get Away > If to think is “to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract,” as Borges claims, ([Location 1449](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1449)) > your imperfect memory is a blessing: it frees you to jump between levels of abstraction, to analyze the present, to imagine new possibilities. ([Location 1450](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CN7NT41X&location=1450)) #### Capture Use Cases ##### Capturing on the Run