> Forte, Tiago. 'Progressive Summarization: A Practical Technique for Designing Discoverable Notes'. _Forte Labs_, 27 Dec. 2017, [https://fortelabs.com/blog/progressive-summarization-a-practical-technique-for-designing-discoverable-notes/](https://fortelabs.com/blog/progressive-summarization-a-practical-technique-for-designing-discoverable-notes/). # Progressive Summarization: A Practical Technique for Designing Discoverable Notes - You ingest a lot of material and information every day: the goal is to **make this knowledge available to your future self** - **==Balance between context (understanding) and compression (discoverability)==** - Layer 0: source material, layer 1: notes, layer 2: bolded text, layer 3: highlighted text, layer 4: mini-summary, layer 5: remix - Allows for easy discovery of layer 3/4/5 notes, while understanding can be done by sliding down the layers since we kept the original material - The "jungle" of notes becomes a clear landscape of islands with mountain peaks - **Progressive summarization is performed in an ==opportunistic manner==, when notes are being reviewed for another purpose already** - 4 guidelines: 1. Don't apply all layers to all notes 2. Use resonance as your criteria - Fast system 1 thinking 3. **Design a system for the laziest version of yourself** > Simple, clear purposes and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. 4. Keep your notes glanceable - **Guidelines designed for recognition over recall** - Purpose: ask better questions - **Optimizing for storage interferes with action: we need to ==efficiently forget things== which are currently useless to us** (see [[Saving information alleviates cognitive workload]]) - Optimal learning strategy: learning a large body of knowledge and randomly forgetting 90% of it - **Learning in the digital age is more about training our intuition** - Core principles of knowledge capture: 1. Interaction over consumption 2. Balance detail with discoverability 3. Opportunistic compression 4. Intuition over analysis 5. Focus most of your attention on the most valuable information 6. Tacit knowledge over explicit knowledge 7. Value questions over answers