the 3 roles that different versions of yourself perform while taking notes for reference
That seems like a reasonable decomposition.
The Holy Grail of note-taking software, for me, is something that would put the indexer out of the job. Some framework that makes it trivially easy for the submitter to place the note in the “correct” place to begin with, or which guarantees that the retriever would be trivially able to fetch all information from the notebase that is related to a given arbitrary query, and which would work without you-the-person needing to engage in time-consuming, often boring and unproductive-feeling notebase management/refactoring. Seems like a major challenge, though.
Yeah, that’s an interesting perspective. I kinda get the desire to eliminate the indexer but I feel like it’s almost the submitter and retriever I would automate and I would only do the indexing work. In a sense the indexing feels like matchmaking between submitters and retrievers who should get to know one another and promoting especially important submission or retrieval work.
But I use my notes to manage my focus and use a heavily modified version of bullet journalling with emphasis on flexible, manual, indexing work. But I wouldn’t claim my system is particularly good, just that it colours my perspective.
That seems like a reasonable decomposition.
The Holy Grail of note-taking software, for me, is something that would put the indexer out of the job. Some framework that makes it trivially easy for the submitter to place the note in the “correct” place to begin with, or which guarantees that the retriever would be trivially able to fetch all information from the notebase that is related to a given arbitrary query, and which would work without you-the-person needing to engage in time-consuming, often boring and unproductive-feeling notebase management/refactoring. Seems like a major challenge, though.
Yeah, that’s an interesting perspective. I kinda get the desire to eliminate the indexer but I feel like it’s almost the submitter and retriever I would automate and I would only do the indexing work. In a sense the indexing feels like matchmaking between submitters and retrievers who should get to know one another and promoting especially important submission or retrieval work.
But I use my notes to manage my focus and use a heavily modified version of bullet journalling with emphasis on flexible, manual, indexing work. But I wouldn’t claim my system is particularly good, just that it colours my perspective.