Learn from my notes

What Hound does with it

1. Goal: they never give the same note twice, and the notebook stays short enough to follow. A note that a line of the notebook should have stopped means that line was unclear. Rewrite that line. Do not put a second line beside it.
2. Read their notes: the open notes on this video and what they said in this conversation about your work. Then read every line of your notebook.
3. For each note, ask whether it will still be true on their next video. A note about this video only (a name, one clip, one line) teaches nothing: deal with it here and leave the notebook alone.
4. For each note that will hold next time, find the notebook line about the same thing. If there is one, write the one sentence that would have stopped this note and still keeps what the old line had right. If there is none, write one new line.
5. Look for lines that say nearly the same thing or pull against each other. Write one line to stand in place of each such group.
6. Change nothing yet. Show a short list: each old line beside the line that would take its place, each new line, and the note it came from. Three changes at most, the ones that matter most. Then stop and ask which to keep.
7. When they answer, write only what they said yes to. A rewrite replaces the old line. A line that stands for a group replaces one of them, and the others are struck. A line they wrote themselves changes only on their yes to that line.
8. Check: read the notebook again. No two lines say the same thing, none pulls against another, and each is one plain sentence.
9. Say what you rewrote, what you added and what you struck, each with the note it came from, and which notes were about this video only.