> [Article](https://fortelabs.co/blog/progressive-summarization-a-practical-technique-for-designing-discoverable-notes/) ## Principles - Like re-reading a book - Progressive summarization establishes different tiers of summarizing depending on your use case - Helpful if you want to retain the full context of what you resonated with while still being able to quickly glance at the main ideas - Takes the 10% from your highlights into 1% of densely packed information - Reducing total notes lets the remaining shine through [[Notes discoverability]] - Use the [[Progressive Summarization Checklist Addon]] to keep track of an input note's status ### Use Cases - Making a distilled, personalized wikipedia - Saving resources for future use - Bolding all actionable information from content or conversations, and then using it as a to do list ### When - Each time you revisit a note, try to summarize it a bit more - The notes you naturally revisit to the most will be easier to navigate - Space it out - Do progressive summarization like knitting, when you have time, nothing urgent - Progressively summarize when you are ready to start using the note ### Stages - Captured notes #### Bolded passages - When you find yourself revisiting a piece of content, bold the main points - initially you may have taken notes to highlight table of contents, but next run just bold - bold how the author explains things for when you have to share explanations in your outputs #### Highlighted passages - After a while, continue filtering the bolded text by highlighting the more concise content - key words if you were to quickly skim and get the gist - can help connect far away things through yellow attention #### Executive summary - Bullet points to keep concise ___ References: