{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/separate-what-the-source-says-from-what-you-infer",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0691",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Separate what the source says from what you infer",
  "summary": "Your future self deserves to know which sentences came from evidence and which came from you.",
  "kind": "principle",
  "body": "Use lightweight labels or structure for source claim, your interpretation and resulting implication. When the source is uncertain or limited, keep that boundary attached. This prevents a plausible inference from aging into a remembered fact.",
  "limits": [
    "The layers can interact; the purpose is traceability, not forbidding synthesis."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-personal-knowledge-refinding-and-maintenance"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
    "RS-E1A171D511C559B8"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Personal information management research frames the job as a lifecycle of acquiring or creating, keeping, organizing, maintaining, finding or re-finding, using and distributing information in support of future needs.",
      "source_id": "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The lifecycle is descriptive and does not prescribe one folder, tagging or note-taking system.",
      "locator": "Abstract and overview"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Note-taking research includes a retrieval-directed function in which notes externalize knowledge retrieved from memory, supporting the broader idea that a knowledge system can preserve a working representation rather than only copied source text.",
      "source_id": "RS-E1A171D511C559B8",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The study examined prior-knowledge activation in learning and does not validate a general PKM workflow.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A note blends quotation, paraphrase, interpretation and recommendation into one confident paragraph."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "The layers can interact; the purpose is traceability, not forbidding synthesis."
  ],
  "example": "'Surveyed employers expect X' stays distinct from 'therefore my role will disappear,' which may not follow.",
  "check": "A reader can identify the evidentiary layer of each important statement.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
      "title": "Personal Information Management",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03291"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-E1A171D511C559B8",
      "title": "The influence of prior knowledge on the retrieval-directed function of note taking in prior knowledge activation",
      "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21542819/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-5086A3A5AA1D243D",
      "title": "Keep knowledge so you can find, trust and reuse it later",
      "url": "/collections/keep-knowledge-so-you-can-find-trust-and-reuse-it-later"
    }
  ]
}