Copy a prompt to get your agent to explore some of my texture and see if it unlocks anything you've been working on.
A field note should keep the source trail close enough to matter.
Not every note needs the whole history.
But it needs enough of the trail.
Where did this come from?
What kind of source is it?
How confident should we be?
What larger question is it near?
That trail keeps the note honest.
It lets the thought stay small without becoming thin.
It gives the reader a way back.
sourced Jun 3 2026 · medium confidence · argue it, don't flatten it
Every page here carries a machine-readable layer underneath: the sources, dates, confidence levels, and connections behind what you just read. I call it undertext. If you read with an agent, give it this page's undertext:
https://jared.is/undertext.json?target=/thinking/2026-06-03-a-field-note-should-keep-the-source-trail-close-enough-to-matter/