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Re:LiquidText: A tool for academical note taking by kranner on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:14AM (#22635673)
> Note taking for long term retrieval doesn't make sense in a world of internet and machine learning. In the future, you will just enter a question in a text box and algorithms will search inside billions of documents, deduce facts and write an essay to answer your question.

That is a narrow view of the reasons people take notes on books. One might want to save one's personal impressions of a piece of fiction, ideas about superficially unrelated concepts that suggest themselves, etc.

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Re:LiquidText: A tool for academical note taking by tajd on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:17AM (#22635934)
I agree. Note taking can be about identifying facts, interesting ideas or arguments but it can also be about arguing with the author, making links or recording your own understanding. The activity of taking notes, for me, is really about codifying your understanding of a section of text.
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