Use the mir package for incremental reading

The mir package builds on top of denote, denote-sequence and Emacs’ SQLite support to provide a workflow for prioritizing, scheduling and reading a massive amount of text and extracting the most useful parts out of it. This is accomplished using a process called incremental reading (for more information, see the package’s README). denote is used as a backbone for storing imported documents such that they are easily modifiable, uniquely identifiable and easy to genealogically query. In particular, the file’s ID is used to store scheduling information in the database and the keyword component is used to build a tree-like hierarchy (i.e. a sequence of notes) that makes it easy to see where the source of a given extracted note is.

As of writing this (January 2026), mir is still in heavy development and does not feature all the functionality that would make it a valid replacement of other incremental reading tools. However, work is underway to make it feature-complete.