Perhaps a counter example, something that is interesting. Anecdotally. This, of all things, is the top result in my search: https://tft.brainiac.com/archive/0303/msg00037.html. Which is strange to me because I don't recognize tft.brainiac. I click, it's a list of biological relationships among Hymenoptera, including a reference to genus of the wasps I studied, presumably in a biological relationship (host/parasite) context. I cataloged every relationship known at one point, so my brain wants to know where this come from, is it something I caught. Then I go look for more context, and find it's part of a thread about D&D(?) and hymenoptera, and it's epic, and a chunk of my morning is lost figuring out why and how this came to be.
If I understand it correctly, you're interested in bits and pieces of new information that's indirectly related to your object of interest. Degree 2 and 3 in Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, so to speak. You know degree 0 like the back of your hand and you've seen almost everything closely connected. Finding novel, interesting things is getting more difficult.
Have you thought about cataloging all the related stuff you stumble upon? Something in between loose notes and what Moby Dick is to cetology.
> Have you thought about cataloging all the related stuff you stumble upon? Something in between loose notes and what Moby Dick is to cetology.
Tongue in cheek- new app time, to facilitate this. It should have the name "Degree4". Entries can only be made if degrees 2 and 3 are "defined". Scoffs at degrees 5 and 6, just because. Startup developing can probably unethically seed content by mining https://www.everything2.com/. Should use concepts of "AI" and "persistent homology"... profit!
But no, I don't outside a mental note. Closest I would come would be adding '!! <some note>' to my potwiki text notes (see my past comments) if its something I want to have come back with a grep, or think might be interesting to explore "when I retire". If it's a scientific fact in my field after researching it further it would go into this https://taxonworks.org (or its precursor).
