Verbatim notes

Category: note type

Summary: Notes preserved in exact wording because the wording itself matters.

What it means

Verbatim notes are useful for quotes, definitions, transcripts, meeting records, legal language, or source excerpts where exact wording must remain intact.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

They connect to source-notes, citation-practices, ounie, source-trust, and privacy.

Common mistakes

• Using verbatim capture for everything.
• Copying copyrighted material wholesale when summary would be safer.

Related pages

• source-notes
• citation-practices
• ounie
• source-trust
• privacy