Research

Digital Serendipity

Digital Serendipity

Serendipity isn't random luck for me - it's building a system where old notes surprise me at the right time.

Intellectual Sourcing

Intellectual Sourcing

I cite sources in notes not for academia - so I can trust my own synthesis and find the original six months later.

Note-Taking for Researchers

Note-Taking for Researchers

Researchers drown in PDF highlights. I borrow lit-review habits: source notes, synthesis notes, never merge the two.

Progressive Summarization

Progressive Summarization

I don't rewrite whole notes when I distill - bold, then highlight, then summarize when I reuse.

RSS for Research

RSS for Research

RSS is how I research without Twitter. Subscribe to blogs, clip to notes, ignore the rest.

Serendipitous Resurfacing

Serendipitous Resurfacing

I design for resurfacing - old notes beat systems that only search what I remember to search for.

Synthesis as a Goal

Synthesis as a Goal

Collecting quotes isn't PKM for me. Synthesis is merging sources into what I believe and can defend.

Getting Started with RSS Feeds: A Beginner's Guide

Getting Started with RSS Feeds: A Beginner's Guide

I figured RSS quietly died around 2010. A friend pointed out it never actually did - it just stopped being trendy. Two weeks of using it later, I was a convert.

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