LLMs are like anabolic steroids for notes. Or maybe more like some potion from Rick and Morty that creates cronenbergs if you're not careful. Nice little shift in perspective though on that stuff.
I wonder what sort of shibboleth there is for folks that take notes. Like is that a tribe? I've realized I'm pretty rare in many utility and water world folks in doing notes as deeply as I do.
FWIW btw I pretty much do chronological plus whatever random notion pages feels like an appropriate ish page and then make sure to carve out time to weave things together.
Come to think of it that is very much aligned with your point about anabolic angles to the notetaking and learning process.
I wrote a prototype of an anabolic note-expanding tool! Working rewrite for people who live outside emacs is underway. https://github.com/itihas/toricelli
Have you ever looked at a loose-leaf trifold system like the Everbook?
It’s been working for me for over a year. The loose leafs sheets avoids notebook specialization and makes it trivial to throw out the bloat.
For the propriocentric like me, the physicality allows me to make memory based retrievals in a way digital notes have failed to duplicate.
Weakness: Transferring good ideas to the digital world. It always feels like duplicated effort, so they usually remain outside LLM searchable space where they may have been grouped, reviewed and published.
If there is anybody who has written about the construction of an LLM notebook for all the different notes and if it organizes it by linking them, without compromising on the privacy of the data it will be very useful ?
Unless I have misunderstood the intent, it feels like this closely resembles the structure of Blygger.com. A public facing networked note taking and blogging app specially blended for LLM ingestion.
LLMs are like anabolic steroids for notes. Or maybe more like some potion from Rick and Morty that creates cronenbergs if you're not careful. Nice little shift in perspective though on that stuff.
I wonder what sort of shibboleth there is for folks that take notes. Like is that a tribe? I've realized I'm pretty rare in many utility and water world folks in doing notes as deeply as I do.
FWIW btw I pretty much do chronological plus whatever random notion pages feels like an appropriate ish page and then make sure to carve out time to weave things together.
Come to think of it that is very much aligned with your point about anabolic angles to the notetaking and learning process.
Most people are Zone 2 Note takers, you're Zone 4 at least my friend. Also definitely going to steal that Cronenberg analogy for LLMs
Zone 2 and 4? Not familiar
Rough cardiovascular zones, measured by a combination of heart rate and lactate. Zones go 0 through 5
I wrote a prototype of an anabolic note-expanding tool! Working rewrite for people who live outside emacs is underway. https://github.com/itihas/toricelli
That's pretty cool. Kind of like Anki but more randomized / rich
Love the concept of anabolic notes and this execution of the idea is cool.
Thank you for writing this. Love the perspective on note-taking as maintenance, and as the main thing to do
Have you ever looked at a loose-leaf trifold system like the Everbook?
It’s been working for me for over a year. The loose leafs sheets avoids notebook specialization and makes it trivial to throw out the bloat.
For the propriocentric like me, the physicality allows me to make memory based retrievals in a way digital notes have failed to duplicate.
Weakness: Transferring good ideas to the digital world. It always feels like duplicated effort, so they usually remain outside LLM searchable space where they may have been grouped, reviewed and published.
Example:
https://wastelandcoder.com/everbook/
If there is anybody who has written about the construction of an LLM notebook for all the different notes and if it organizes it by linking them, without compromising on the privacy of the data it will be very useful ?
Unless I have misunderstood the intent, it feels like this closely resembles the structure of Blygger.com. A public facing networked note taking and blogging app specially blended for LLM ingestion.
I come back to read this article every so often and I always come away with something new to think about.