• Perhaps a cliched reference to AI, but I think note-taking is perhaps… over-hyped because you don’t apply it. Like a VAE where decoding is a key part of learning, I think note-taking tries to focus only on encoding and pretends that’s enough to form an interesting latent representation.

Bibliography

• Andy Matuschak. “The Most Effective Readers and Thinkers I Know Don’t Take Notes When Reading.” Tweet. Twitter, December 30, 2019. https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1211487900505792512.
• Chapin, Sasha. “Notes Against Note-Taking Systems.” Accessed August 6, 2022. https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/notes-against-note-taking-systems.