保存摘录的行为本身构成一条思维轨迹:反复出现的主题比单次记忆更早暴露你当前的关注与回避。文章把随想簿比作林间标记(blaze),每条引文是一处停留记号;只看这些记号,可以回溯近几个月反复触及的话题与未决的判断。 作者建议将 Jack London"随手记下所有杂念"的记法与筛选式记录结合:只留真正让你停下来的内容,标记越多越密,路径越难辨认。文章没有给出量化方法,核心做法是定期翻看数月积累,观察哪些词句反复出现,再据此提问自己是否回避了某个议题。
Picture a table. On one side, you, with half an idea. On the other, three friends. One has a shoebox full of every quote and image you’ve ever saved. One just listens and, when you pause, asks a reall...
作者(Ember 应用的使用者/推广者)提出一个观点:人记住的不是整本书,而是某一句;所以别存"一整篇文章",只存"一句话"。他用吃饭/咀嚼/反刍的比喻说明"摩擦"本身就是思考过程——保存文章几乎没有决策,而摘出一句则迫使暂停判断。 最后软推广自己用的 Ember 应用,定位是"保存你想反复碰到的句子并真的反复碰到"。属于有清晰立场和比喻的个人写作,但尾部是自家产品软文,削弱了中立性;观点本身(反"存了=学了")在科技读者中有共鸣但并不算全新,讨论入口中等。
It is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul. — Ignatius of Loyola I wasn’t looking for this one. I was shuffling through quotes my commo...
Every intellectual endeavor starts with a note. — Sönke Ahrens I copied those seven words out of How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens the first time I read the book. Not because I had a plan for th...
Before I built Ember, my commonplace book lived in Evernote. I remember scrolling through the quotes I’d saved from Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull’s ideas on candor and creativity, lines I’d pulled out...