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# 3.5.1 Notes as a temporary store for thought

> Allowing unfinished state, protecting thought before it's fixed, notes as a starting point

Notes are not for organizing results.\
They’re where thought **rests before it’s fixed into structure**.

Documents are written when direction is set.\
The plotboard is used when structure is visible.\
Notes sit **before** that.

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## When to use them

* When you have an idea but no direction yet
* When it feels too early to turn it into prose
* When you have a mix of hypotheses and questions
* When you want to hold thought in place before building structure

Notes are for\
**thought in progress**,\
not thought that’s already organized.

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## What notes are

### They allow unfinished state

Notes don’t ask for completion.\
One word, one question, one short line is enough.\
Logic doesn’t have to flow.\
Structure doesn’t have to be clear.

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### They protect unfixed thought

Ideas are fragile when they first appear.\
Trying to organize them can make them disappear.

Notes\
don’t judge the thought;\
they **keep it as is**.

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## Notes are a starting point

Notes don’t have to stay notes forever.

Some become documents.\
Some become part of the plot.

Before that,\
no role is fixed yet.

> A note is\
> **thought that doesn’t have a role yet.**