Notes from How to Take Smart Notes:
- New permanent notes should always reference existing notes, context is value
- You can always create a new note with context as an entry point
- Don’t sort and classify notes, think about context where you want to find them later
- Keep notes short and to the point
A lot of these notes are actually very comparable to the advice in:
It seems likely that I should really be consolidating these notes. It also seems like a general failing of my note taking process that I didn’t even realize I had this duplication.
One of the core values of writing notes is to Close open loops.