Evergreen note-writing helps insight accumulate

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author:: Andy Matuschak
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Evergreen Note are the place where Leap of Insight can happen.

Consider some hypothetical leap of insight you’d like to be able to make. To make that leap, you’ll typically need to evolve many independent, partially-formed ideas simultaneously, until they suddenly converge in a flash of inspiration. If you need to iterate on more than a few pieces at once, you may struggle to keep them all in your head.

Yet each note you write represents an increment in your thinking about that specific idea, and each note enriches the broader network of links. Better note-taking vs better thinking.

Structuring into evergreen notes helps learning:

• Restructure information to understand it
• Draw concepts out to understand them