A blend should not be described as synergistic, antagonistic, or reliably better until preparation or evaluation order is randomized and independent repetitions show the effect exceeds ordinary experimental variation.
A home blender may use a lightweight design, but should then describe findings as personal exploratory impressions rather than validated interaction effects.
Order, fatigue, expectation, and one-off preparation error can imitate mixture interactions. Randomization disperses systematic order effects; replication supplies an error estimate and a repeatability check.
Synthesized from NIST/SEMATECH mixture-design guidance and bounded to a staged consumer-whiskey pilot.
A Zettel is one durable idea in your own words—not a quotation, source summary, or draft-book claim.
Atomic idea
State one complete idea. It should be understandable on its own and specific enough to connect to other notes.
Reasoning
Explain why the idea is true or useful in Rationale and Implications. Record meaningful objections or exceptions in Counterpoints.
Provenance
Connect one or more Literature Notes. Direct source relations are legacy-only; trace evidence through the literature-note and excerpt chain.
Connections
Apply approved Tags for retrieval and one or more Themes only when the note genuinely advances those interpretive threads.