Progressive summarization
Compress a note in layers, adding one only when you open it again
Compression happens in passes, never all at once. Save the passages worth keeping, then on some later visit bold the best lines inside them, then highlight the two or three that carry the point. The result reads at whatever depth the moment allows. Doing all the layers on the first pass is the mistake that turns a five-second habit into an afternoon.
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- Tiago ForteDoes it
Productivity writer · Building a Second Brain
Adds a bolding layer to a note only when he happens to be reviewing it for something else, so the summarizing uses attention he was already spending. He says he works to no explicit criteria, just whatever reads like the core of the idea.
Source: fortelabs.com: Progressive Summarization
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