Logbook 2026-10-30

Today the system sorted the whole first batch, wrote its first notes and its first review.

The triage felt balanced. About a third of the sources became notes, around half were kept as plain references, and the rest were set aside. That’s what I want: a knowledge base that clears out the noise instead of bloating. The layers I set up at the start finally make sense now that a first filter, based on my interests, sits between them: raw text, source records, notes, and reviews on top. It won’t be perfect yet, and I expect it to improve as I give it feedback, a loop that refines and steers it over time.

Newsletters raised a question of their own. Each issue carries about twenty links, most of them off-topic. Rather than reading them all, the system now lists them, and only the ones that match my interests during triage get read and kept as sources in their own right, linked back to the issue they came from. About two hundred articles came in that way. They extended a dozen notes and started five new ones.

One theme kept coming back in those articles: how people work with AI, from interaction principles to delegating work to agents. It was half a surprise. As AI spreads, agent experience is becoming a discipline of its own, so I added it to the themes.

I read the notes and the review. My first reaction: powerful and promising. Not everything is right from day one, but it’s a hundred times better than leaving all those saved things untouched. The review already lets me scan quickly, draw lessons and confirm trends, and I can see how to improve it, starting with key quotes that capture the ideas behind each note. What I expect from a review, and how it can lead to action, is still something I’m working out.

I’ll keep sending specific links, so the system learns what sparks my curiosity and makes choices closer to the ones I would make myself. What I look forward to most is making the review part of my routine: threads of knowledge where I pick what to dig into without frustration over what I leave aside, knowing connections keep forming in the background, ready for the day I want to take another direction or explore something to sharpen my views and my skills, in thinking and in practice.