evergreen-notes
Evergreen notes
An evergreen note is written to be useful for years, not for one class or one project. Each note holds one concept, its title states that concept as a claim ("Writing is how thinking gets tested"), and it links to the notes it builds on or argues with. The note is never "done": each time the person comes back to it with new reading or experience, it gets sharper. The term is most closely associated with Andy Matuschak, who wrote about the practice in his public notes.
The claim title is the heart of it. A title like "Habits" is a bucket; a title like "Habits form faster when the cue is fixed" is an idea you can agree with, test, and link to in a sentence. Writing in this style, the titles start to read like an argument, and a draft can be assembled by stringing them together. It suits writers, researchers, and anyone who wants their notes to compound.