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 let the reader keep one useful thread.
Not the whole archive.
Not the whole history.
One thread.
A sentence.
A question.
A route into another conversation.
That is enough.
If the note does that, it has done useful work.
The deeper trail can wait until the reader wants it.
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-let-the-reader-keep-one-useful-thread/