Different Layers of Highlighting

• Layer 1: When you encounter something interesting, capture it
• Layer 2: Bold the most interesting parts
• Layer 3: Highlight the most interesting bolded sections
• Layer 4: Summarize the bolded portions and the note in your own words
• Layer 5: Turn your notes into something new: a tweet, a blog post, even a book

Each layer should include no more than 10-20% of the previous layer.

Resources

• Building a Second Brain

• 2022-10-05 ◦ Cache All the Things - A PKM workflow to incrementally retain (and find) everything

  There are some highly desirable characteristics of progressive summarization:

  • just in time vs ahead of time: you only do the work when you need to
  • incremental work: you only do minimal work at each layer which can then be leveraged in later layers
  • active vs passive: you actively read the text instead of skimming it

• 2022-08-30 ◦ Implementing A Second Brain in Emacs and Org-Mode - Tasshin