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Building a Field Notes Habit
A short template for turning experiments into durable notes instead of letting them disappear into chat logs.
Good notes are not archives. They are instruments.
A useful field note usually answers four questions:
- What did I try?
- What actually happened?
- What surprised me?
- What should I do differently next time?
That structure keeps writing close to evidence. It also makes future work faster because the next experiment does not start from zero.
The goal is not to sound final. The goal is to preserve enough signal that the next iteration starts smarter.