What is conversation notes?

Conversation notes is a concept in personal epistemology: Write down insights from conversations immediately — social memory is especially lossy.

Example: You have a one-on-one with your manager. She shares a subtle reframe of your project's strategy that clicks something into place. You nod, you feel the insight land, and you move on to the next topic. By the time you get back to your desk, you remember having an insight — but not the specific reframe. The gist lingers. The exact wording — the part that made it click — is gone. Had you jotted three words on a sticky note under the table, you'd still have it.

This concept is part of Phase 3 (Capture Systems) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for capture systems.