Stacked, Evergreen Notes

I was reading through notes.andymatuschak.org about note taking practices and evergreen notes. I found the ‘stacked’ notes format of to be a very effective format for presenting deeply linked information. It spurred two thoughts and one call to action.

Thought one: I have not heard of evergreen notes before. The concept behind evergreen notes is to write notes that evolve in order to facilitate thinking. Thought two: One of the notes I read on Andy’s site mentioned that ‘People generally develop skills to a plateau and then stop’. While I agree with the phrase, I had never before considered note taking as a skill that could be developed.

The call to action was to restart my own blog. I had previously published my own blog and while it was largely a collection of ‘ineffective’ notes as Andy suggests I also found it to be a good reference for subjects I am interested in.