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[!summary]Eleanor Konik updates her simple note-taking method for an AI-enabled world. She captures key insights while reading, then uses AI and tools like Readwise and Obsidian to organize and distill large note piles. AI handles tedious tasks so she can focus on thinking and using the best ideas.
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note taking for me is still pretty simple: I start with a goal, I record key information and insights, and then I organize it and refer back to those notes as needed.
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There’s a lot of work that goes into optimizing a passive feed to actually have useful stuff instead of ragebait, and the social media landscape’s ever-changing algorithm doesn’t help, but I do my best to curate my feeds so that when I don’t have the time or bandwidth to sink into a book I’m still doing something vaguely useful instead of just winding myself up about whatever.
Es parte de lo que he escrito en mi idea de Dieta Digital.
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My habit is to highlight anything I want to see again, and ignore the rest. If I’m in a hurry, I’ll grab the whole paragraph, but otherwise I try to focus on something more targeted. I try to leave myself a note about why I grabbed the quote
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it is helpful to have a tagging schema that is customized to your preferences and reasons for reading. What are you interested in? What motivates you to take notes on books at all?
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Most of the time, though, my heavy AI usage comes after I’m done. I use Reader to “chat” with my documents and highlights to find things I vaguely remember, using what amounts to fancy semantic search. I use other LLMs to actually organize the big pile of notes I’m left with at the end of a book.
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Organizing all of this is time-consuming but not terribly intellectual. I’m just following directions from my past self as I review a huge pile of highlights and annotations.
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I have a couple of reasons for preferring Obsidian, but for the specific task of making >100 headers with a LLM, the main one is that I am a paranoid soul. Obsidian makes it very easy to check that the LLM hasn’t corrupted my file with gibberish with one wonderful plugin: Version History Diff by Obsidian moderator Koala, which is the primary reason I feel safe using LLMs for this sort of task on such a big file. Here’s an example change, taken from my notes on *The Rise and Reign of the Mammals*by Steve Brusatte… all 15,000 words of them.
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Next, I’ll move the file out of my Readwise database and into its own special “annotated” folder.
Esto evita el problema que se generarĂa al borrar toda las notas creadas por la exportaciĂłn bruta de Readwise en Obsidian, cosa que a veces es necesario hacer si se quiere actualizar el formato.