Evergreen notes

Readwise acts as a Spaced Review for your highlights, so by highlighting anything I might find interesting, I allow Readwise to do the work of choosing what I should be converting from a highlight to Evergreen notes.

Evergreen notes vs Project Notes

(I should make sure I am focusing on extracting Evergreen notes rather than quotes.)

This also allows me to read on my phone, since reading is really about getting interesting highlights that I will later (eventually) turn into Evergreen notes.

Writing can be used to develop ideas and formulate them, this is the purpose behind Evergreen notes.

I can liberally highlight paragraphs and sections and look at them later on Readwise. This means I can do multiple passes on Readwise, once to read the passage I highlighted, and edit the note down (i.e. “extract”) a part of the highlight for later review. Then when I feel a highlight sufficiently encompasses an idea I want to note, I can turn that highlight into an Evergreen notes (and also one day add to a Spaced Review).

Readwise becomes a holding ground for anything from my readings that I might want to turn into Evergreen notes. This means that, as much as possible, if I find something interesting while reading, I should try to send it to Readwise. If I’m not able, my next bets are to put it into the Raindrop as inbox for webpages process, or the Apple Notes as inbox for transient notes process.