Notes
ActiveThe working surface. Everything here is provisional, dated, and written for one reader. Material graduates out of this section into a project, a chapter or a literature note once it is coherent; it does not graduate by being tidied in place.
Things worth trying, captured before they are evaluated.
Advisor meetingsWhat was asked, what was advised, and what was committed to.
MeetingsEverything else: collaborators, groups, external conversations.
ObservationsThings noticed that do not yet fit anywhere.
Open questionsWhat is currently not understood. The most honest page on the site.
Research journalDated entries: what was done, what happened, what is next.
The rule about dates
Every note is dated YYYY-MM-DD in its filename and its heading. A research
journal whose entries cannot be ordered is a pile, and a pile cannot show that
a hypothesis was written before the run that tested it.
The rule about editing
Journal entries and meeting notes are not edited after the day they were written. If something turns out to be wrong, a later entry says so. Editing the past makes the record useless for exactly the purpose it exists to serve.