Method notes

Each feature of Hypomnema answers a way of reading. The method notes describe that way of reading, so that you understand what you configure before you configure it. Take them as material: you can follow one as it is, adapt it to your reading, or turn it into something else entirely. The settings section of each feature links to its note.

The notes rest on one concern. Writing a comment hands a thought over to a machine. An annotation tool is useful if it helps you take that thought back, reread it and rework it, and harmful if it keeps it in your place. Florian Ernotte develops the idea, in French, under the name operational dispossession.

How a note is built

Every note follows the same outline.

The idea describes the reading practice the feature supports. An example from a real reading follows one reading, from the annotated passage to the result. The setting gives the configuration that matches. Variants shows how to adapt it or turn it to another use.

The notes

Note	Feature
Categories	Categories
Objection and verification	Annotation gestures
The margin	Margin
Periodic review	Filtered extraction to a Kanban board
From reading to writing	Extraction with a template
End of reading	Chain and script