In my knowledge management workflow, I interact with notes three times:

Once, as I capture the insight in the moment in a rough form to process later.

Next, a few days later, as I clean up the note to file away in longer-term storage (e.g. as one of the 11k private notes in my https://thecompendium.cards).

At this stage, I clean up spelling errors, add a teensy bit more context to help the idea make sense in the future once the background context is lost, develop the idea just a teensy bit, and maybe interlink with other recent related ideas.

A lot of the time, similar ideas have come up in multiple discussions since the original note, giving it a bit more color.

Finally, every week I skim through all of my notes and select ones to develop into a bit or a bob.

These synthesize them into almost little stand-alone essays, making them more durable against the sands of time.

This process is kind of a chewing of the cud, a slow thinking process.