Documentation, Development, Diffusion. The eternal cycle of cultural work. You want to make bread ? Simple. First, read a book, meet a baker, look at a screencast. Second, try it a few times. Third, proudly give some of your beloved products to your family and friends.
All the steps go hand in hand. You don't document yourself if it's not to develop something. You don't develop anything if it's not to diffuse it. Even diaries are there to be read.
All these steps form a progression. No notes to notes. From note to text. Only one hop. Rewrite notes, yes ; copy-paste notes, no.
Diffusion tidies up your collection of notes and texts. Texts and notes you keep commit yourself to future work. Getting texts done alleviates both minds and notebooks.
Development of one work serves the documentation need of another process. That is, for beings rational enough to preserve some consistency in their research interests. That's what making of's are all about.
Documentation, or at least the best part of it, becomes an interesting object of diffusion. Listing a collection of documents creates a bibliography. Researchers are for the most part masters of the loci classici of their fields.
All the process should help itself. The more you document, develop, or diffuse, the easier it should get. If not, something wrong is going on.
