matches my experience 100%. I take a lot of notes, and they are super useful, but...

when I don't care how I might write something down that's like 3x boost to thinking speed and ~2x boost in available "context size", in LLM parlance

upd: actually, one of my biggest disappointments in childhood was that the words don't map 1:1 to what we now call "concept embeddings"

PDF: https://wz.ax/2024/language-is-a-tool-for-communication