From too many sources to knowledge I can use again

Description and use

<p>Hi! There were more useful sources than I could read carefully. Saving every promising link would only move the pile into a reading list. I wanted to choose what deserved attention and keep the ideas I would need again.</p> <p>That raised another question: when I returned to a problem, what should I be able to recover from my own research? A useful note would give me the idea, the source behind it, and enough context to judge whether it applied to the task in front of me.</p> <p>This became Research Brain: a workflow for collecting material, turning selected sources into linked notes, and c

Problem

<p>Hi! There were more useful sources than I could read carefully. Saving every promising link would only move the pile into a reading list. I wanted to choose what deserved attention and keep the ideas I would need again.</p> <p>That raised another question: when I returned to a problem, what should I be able to recover from my own research? A useful note would give me the idea, the source behind it, and enough context to judge whether it applied to the task in front of me.</p> <p>This became Research Brain: a workflow for collecting material, turning selected sources into linked notes, and c

Outcome

<p>Hi! There were more useful sources than I could read carefully. Saving every promising link would only move the pile into a reading list. I wanted to choose what deserved attention and keep the ideas I would need again.</p> <p>That raised another question: when I returned to a problem, what should I be able to recover from my own research? A useful note would give me the idea, the source behind it, and enough context to judge whether it applied to the task in front of me.</p> <p>This became Research Brain: a workflow for collecting material, turning selected sources into linked notes, and c

Evidence

From too many sources to knowledge I can use again

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