Is note-making an “aide memoire” or a replacement for the source? To distill a book into notes on it, is to change ou...

Is note-making an “aide memoire” or a replacement for the source? To distill a book into notes on it, is to change our relationship with the original text. Beyond just storing facts we are building a library of our own interpretations. There’s a friction between preservation and occlusion in our digital workflows. “When you make notes you forget your reading and replace it with the future opportunity to read again not the original book but your own notes on it.” Read more: writingslowly.com/2026/05/1… #Zettelkasten #PKM #NoteMaking