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Programmable Notes

Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows. Based on behavior of writer, can provide prompts for higher level thinking and inspiration.

It's hopefully clear that the goal of these is to encourage practices like reflection, synthesis, connection, and serendipity. The goal is not to simply amass notes. /- Maggie Appleton

Elicit, a research tool that helps academics and students find relevant papers and data based on natural language inputs. You can ask it a question like "What's the point of note-taking?” and receive a list of research papers that are likely to hold the answer. Even better, Elicit creates a one-sentence summary of the paper's main finding and presents it in the results. These simple linguistic transformations and generative prompts don't require a high level of intellectual sophistication to be useful. Sometimes you just need a wall to bounce ideas off. And modern NLP systems are a great wall. They can give us just a touch of reflection, perspective, and serendipity when we get stuck in our own heads. https://res.cloudinary.com/dxj9qr5gj/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto:good,w_1200/v1647850074/maggieappleton.com/patterns/elicit4_g1q0zz.png

Gordon Brander's app Subconscious (currently in alpha) that promises to feature "geists" – "little scripts that find connections between notes, and use procedural generators to construct algorithmic provocations.”

Smartblocks -IFTTT workflow for writing

Examples of Programmable notes: Oblique StrategiesOblique Strategies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a card-based method for promoting creativity jointly ...

## Further reaing

https://roamjs.com/extensions/roam42/smartblocks https://roamresearch.com/ https://oasislab.pubpub.org/pub/54t0y9mk/release/3