Mini-Essay
Notes can be a mini-essay. Slightly more informed than a reaction, but more as a seed that you are planting for future you to possible add more to in the future. An important aside, since notes are gifts for ourselves, leave out how another might consume it. They are for us and our feelings and our consumption. Notes can serve as a piece of wood that will build our cabin of words where our article will reside, but that’s for the future.
Save your critical eye for when you are proof-reading, remember The Right Kind of Attention