He read the PDF backwards—last page to first. This broke the illusion of flow and showed him every broken link, every orphaned note, every assumption he'd hidden.
And the system lived on.
Bob laughed. "A PDF is never done . It is published ."
Bob held up an index card. "Don't write a PDF. Write a system for writing a PDF. The document is just the ghost that appears when you stop moving the notes."
Wait, but the reader needs a warning first. Insert [[Note 402]] here. He pulled notes into the draft, not by copying, but by (embedding). The draft was a conversation between his past self (the notes) and his present self (the editor).
