Mark where the argument turns, not where it arrives — conclusions are findable by flipping, inferences are invisible without your help.
Paired with rule 3.6 — do not annotate what you already know — this converts the margin from a highlight reel into a record of where you actually changed.
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Typed edges. Anything below the line was authored on the other note and derived here.
example-of →Producing your own sentence about an idea encodes durably; recognising someone else’s does almost nothing.Finding the hinge cannot be done by recognition — it requires reconstructing the argument well enough to locate the load-bearing move, which is generation whether or not you write anything.