https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes
→ the parts about EG notes, knowledge work, memory, concatted into a single file: evergreen-notes
summary: evergreen-notes-summary
Evergreen note titles are like APIs put that into note taking / here
Andy really likes SRS, and i get his points, e.g. that you have more immediate consistent daily feedback (e.g. bad questions that bother you, you’ll fix right away), vs. a bad note that continues to amass cruft.
Or that SRS could help you incrementally develop an idea that’s not yet an evergreen note.
But I feel like it’s too burdensome to maintain in addition to a note-taking system? Even with LLM assistance (or esp. with – d.t. slop and so on, but ig eventually you could get it right).
And especially, since Evergreen note maintenance approximates spaced repetition (I often experience that old notes pop back up, years later, or generally read/edit/link many notes dozens of times – and it’s more of a natural on-demand kind of thing rather than idk some random external SRS thing). I think that’s good enough for me. Well, I actually like it better, it’s prlly just a skill issue, but I don’t like how compartmentalized and sometimes trivial the flashcard stuff usually is.
Evergreen Note Types
Each type has a different function in thinking. Knowing what type you’re writing helps you write it well.
Evergreen notes … precise, narrow, declarative claims
Outline notes … sequences of links that build an argument (like a TOC, arranging existing notes to make a point / highlight a perspective)
Bridge notes … dedicated notes explaining the relationship between two ideas
Literature notes … titled after a single work, primarily as linkages to other notes and backlink targets
Daily working logs … ephemeral, date-titled