# Overnotes An over*tone* is the note you don't quite notice you're hearing. Above any played note sit fainter ones, and those upper partials are what gives a sound its warmth and character. Sound the same pitch on a violin and a flute and you tell them apart easily, right? Same note, different vibe. Carry that idea into teaching and you have the whole intent of this place: what matters most is not just the bare fact but the resonance around it, the part that gives an idea its colour and makes it stay. So Over*notes* gathers the things I learn, I teach, I share. Pluck one string, and a nearby string will *resonate* untouched—not because the two are the same note, but because above both, their overtones meet. It answers with something already its own. That is what I would like these notes to do. Thank you for dropping by. Everything here is free to read, reuse ([with credit](About%20me)), and argue with. Nothing is final; the notes get revised as my thinking does. Where a note rests on published work I link to the paper, and the full list is on my [ORCID record](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7330-1512). > [!note] While reading… > …please keep in mind that these notes are not peer-reviewed publications. Even though I invest considerable time and effort to adhere to academic writing rigour (with a slightly lighter style) and fact-checking, they might contain factual and interpretative errors. When quoting, go to the source writings rather than to the note. ## Finding your way There's no fixed table of contents here, and that's on purpose. Use the *search box* in the left-hand pane and chase whatever you're curious about—a word, a name, a half-formed question. The notes are *linked* to each other, so one good search tends to open onto several more. Try for instance: [[Making special|making special]]. That one is a _concept page_: a term used somewhere in the notes, given one definition with its references underneath. Most of them carry other people's thinking, and the citation says whose; where the idea is mine, the page says that too. You can also click on the global graph icon in the right-hand pane (the *tiny graph symbol in the upper right corner*) to view all notes and their connections at once. If something here helps you, take it; if something looks wrong, tell me.