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skydhashyesterday at 1:03 PM0 repliesview on HN

There's a lot more dimension to the notes we take than what is actually written down. You can share your notes to other people and their interpretation would be very different to what you intended. It even happens with full books and articles. Even lots of metadata don't really help.

Text is a very linear medium. It's just the spark while our wealth of experiences is the fuel. No amount of wrangling the word "pain" will compare to actually experiencing it.

You'll better be served by just having a space repetition system for the notes you've taken. In this way, you'll be reminded of the whole experience when you took the note instead of reading words that were never written by someone who have lived.