Writing
Essays
Public pages from Ada Ng. If it would not be said in a room, it is not here.
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- #books 3
- #method 3
- #reading 3
- #transformers 3
- #attention 2
- #claim 2
- #garden 2
- #history 2
- #literature 2
- #architecture 1
- #devonthink 1
- #moc 1
- #publishing 1
- #retrieval 1
- #structure 1
- #trails 1
- #zettelkasten 1
2 Sep 2026
Why I stopped highlighting PDFs
Highlighting a PDF feels like work. It is filing. A year later I cannot recover the thought, only the yellow. The method The method I actually use: kind: fleeting → same d
28 Aug 2026
Notes on How to Take Smart Notes
Ahrens is not a productivity book. It is a book about when thinking happens. Highlighting, underlining, and dumping quotes into a reference manager all feel like work. They are fil
12 Aug 2026
Rereading As We May Think
Bush wanted the trail — the path a mind actually took through a library — to be as durable as the documents. Most “personal knowledge” software stores the documents and throws away
4 Sep 2026
On The Craft of Research
Still reading. Booth’s move is the one I needed before quals: a topic is not a question, a question is not a claim. I am using the book as a template for the thesis map: - Topic —