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Notes on
knowing more.
The original Building in Public series, plus practical ideas for better questions, stronger evidence, and thoughtful work.
Six chapters.
One connected story.
From upload to durable notes. Every original poster, with the problem, mechanism and takeaway kept together.
Further reading
An answer is a starting point. The source is the test.
A practical way to check AI-generated answers without losing your train of thought.
Read articleDocument search is not the same as a chatbot.
Where retrieval helps, where it can fail, and why inspectable evidence matters.
Read articleA smaller, better-organized research library.
Organize by the question you are trying to answer, rather than by file type.
Read articleHow to ask better questions of your documents.
Give your question a scope, a task and a way to verify the answer.
Read articleWhat makes a source citation useful?
A document name is a beginning. A precise passage is much more helpful.
Read articleResearch you can retrace.
Connect questions, evidence and notes into a trail another reader can follow.
Read articleYour next good read?
Explore the documentation for a closer look at the workflow.
Open the field guide