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Literature notes
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Here Andy describes a process for maintaining and ultimately making use of Evergreen notes that have accumulated over time.
- Write durable (evergreen) notes while reading and thinking. This is both for thinking about random things (and noting them in daily notes as scratch most of the time) and while taking literature notes.
- When a note is added, add a link to that note in an appropriate outline (creating one if there is not a suitable one already)
- When it comes time to actual write a piece, or you want to develop a topic further, find gaps in that outline and create new (evergreen) notes to fill in those gaps.
- Aggregate all notes from the outline into an initial draft, and iterate. As Andy mentions, with managed notes the task becomes more like editing than composition.