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tags:
  - topic/meta
  - type/encyclopedia
title: This Notebook
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# This Notebook

This notebook is [[me|my]] primary store for long-term notes.

It includes rough ideas
that I'm likely to change my opinion on
as my understanding of them develops.

## Contents

The larger part of this notebook is falls under a few [[supertopics]],
mostly industry knowledge and notes relevant to [[my-occupation]].

The rest is whatever else I feel is worth writing down.

### Daily Notes

It's hard for me to reconcile the idea of daily notes
with the purpose of [[personal-knowledge-management]] as I see it.
Nonetheless, they are popular, and generally enjoyable to write.
See [[periodic-notes]] for appropriate use.

## Purpose

* Compensate for my poor memory
* Make my achievements in understanding more "real"

## Tone

I write as if someone else will read these notes,
I find this beneficial for my current and future selves.
Explaining concepts completely
forces me to understand them completely
and to provide context I may be tempted to omit
because it is obvious at the time of writing.
When revisiting notes its then much easier to pick up where I left off.

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It's recently been pointed out to me
that it can't possibly be my intent for others to read my notes,
since I tend use diction and syntax that is needlessly opaque.
I'm compelled to agree,
but I don't know how to reconcile that fact with my intent.

My response is simply that it's fun to write like this.

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## Conventions

### Text Wrapping

I didn't like them at first,
but this notebook uses [[semantic-line-breaks]]
for text wrapping.

I shoot for less than 90 columns.
This line of text (which is precisely 90 characters) is the maximum length for prose here.

## Licensing

It is my intent that any outside sources used here will be properly cited,
and that work can be assumed to be my own unless otherwise stated.

For the content I have the right to,
I dedicate to the public domain,
with no need nor request of attribution.

## TODO

This notebook is in constant need of maintenance.
For the current backlog, see [[TODO]].
