If you& #39;re anything like me, you read a lot. You probably retain less.

And if you& #39;re really like me, you probably retain almost nothing.

So I worked on a system to go from information to networked knowledge. It& #39;s my Information Operating System, and @roamresearch is the core. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">

When I get article or book highlights into Roam with @readwise, I put them through @tiagoforte& #39;s progressive summarization.

Going back through the highlights, I also take three other sets of notes:

Literature Notes https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📖" title="Offenes Buch" aria-label="Emoji: Offenes Buch">
Transient Notes https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌬" title="Wind blasendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Wind blasendes Gesicht">
Ideas https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💡" title="Elektrische Glühbirne" aria-label="Emoji: Elektrische Glühbirne">

Literature Notes https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📖" title="Offenes Buch" aria-label="Emoji: Offenes Buch"> are my commentary and other thoughts that are tightly coupled to the source article.

I& #39;ll connect any related highlights to them via blockrefs.

Transient notes https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌬" title="Wind blasendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Wind blasendes Gesicht"> are more conceptual and independent, some will bloom into evergreen notes https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌲" title="Immergrüner Baum" aria-label="Emoji: Immergrüner Baum">

Ideas https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💡" title="Elektrische Glühbirne" aria-label="Emoji: Elektrische Glühbirne"> are for inspiration you get while going through your highlights. These can turn into research topics https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧠" title="Gehirn" aria-label="Emoji: Gehirn">, article ideas https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📓" title="Notizbuch" aria-label="Emoji: Notizbuch">, or projects https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📝" title="Memo" aria-label="Emoji: Memo">.

As you collect evergreens, you can remix and reuse them for these and more. After all why have knowledge if you don& #39;t use it?

Evergreen notes https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌲" title="Immergrüner Baum" aria-label="Emoji: Immergrüner Baum"> are richly backlinked to many topics and referenced from multiple sources. They are independent, but their power comes from their links to other topics and concepts. @andy_matuschak demonstrates their power handily in his working notes: https://notes.andymatuschak.com"> https://notes.andymatuschak.com 

This has been an ultra-condensed overview of the knowledge journey. If you want to read more, you can follow the full journey at the below links:
https://www.kylestratis.com/post/my-information-operating-system-part-1-reading

https://www.kylestratis.com/post/my-i... href=" https://www.kylestratis.com/post/my-information-operating-system-part-2-collecting

https://www.kylestratis.com/post/my-i... href=" https://www.kylestratis.com/post/my-information-operating-system-part-3-synthesizing">https://www.kylestratis.com/post/my-i...