It’s more important for notes to be complete than fully digested
I was cleaning up some old notes (specifically this one 202006022328), and noticed that I had left a bunch of notes as TODOs (that I never went back and filled in, because I left them as open loops https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Close_open_loops). I also had one note that I hadn’t left as a TODO, and instead had pasted a simple link to a source 202006031238. This worked just as well as me adding a whole write-up about it, because this wasn’t the type of thing that I wanted to process very deeply. (As compared to things that you might want to write more deeply about: Write about what you read to internalize texts deeply). This relates to mistakes I made with my old Zettelkasten 202204102322 — I didn’t realize earlier that Write about what you read to internalize texts deeply | The best way to read is highly contextual, and instead I was trying to just
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