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by cratermoon 904 days ago
The important point is that the raw notes are for the note-taker. They not only document what you thought, they are themselves a part of and tool for the thinking process. Writing is thinking[1], and the initial results aren't going to be very useful for someone else, because they'll be rambling and messy, with lots of false starts, errors, and just wrong ideas. They're for the author to remember the path to the outcome[2], they are not the outcome itself.

For the rest of the team, those raw notes are source material. That can be the input into lightweight documents like technical memos and decision records.

1. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/writing...

2. https://posts.oztamir.com/the-opposite-of-forgetting-is-writ...