The note I write about an article is worth more than the article
The paragraph I add in my own words is the thing I can find later. The publisher text is usually not.
I build Markwise, so I am biased. Notes are first-class and indexed with the save. The bet is that both your sentence and their text are findable by meaning. Nothing prompts a note at read time yet. That is the shortfall.
If you never write the "why it mattered" line, the save is just a URL you will re-Google.
When do you actually take the note: at save, at read, or never?
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That “why it mattered” line is the part most content systems lose. For client work, I keep the note beside the saved source and tag it with the decision it supports. Six months later I can recover the reasoning, not just another URL.
That decision tag is a great addition. It turns the note into a record of what changed, not just why the link was interesting.
Exactly. The decision tag is what makes it recoverable later. Without that, it’s just another highlighted paragraph.