diff --git a/notes.rst b/notes.rst
index 12b1eca..9648bbf 100644
--- a/notes.rst
+++ b/notes.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ new string literals
 - u8"I'm a UTF-8 string."
 - u"This is a UTF-16 string."
 - U"This is a UTF-32 string."
+- R"\w+" instead of "\\w+"
+    - doesn't seem to work with my compilers
 
 tuple fun
 =========
@@ -72,9 +74,13 @@ regular expressions and threading
 =================================
 
 - this is where the burning starts to set in ...
-- compile with gcc to see how awesome that is
-- compile with clang
-    - instructions on building this found `here`_
+- threading works ... mostly
+    - compiles and runs with both compilers
+    - run stress
+- regex examples
+    - compile with gcc to see how awesome that is
+    - compile with clang
+        - instructions on building this found `here`_
 
 .. _`here`: http://solarianprogrammer.com/2011/10/16/llvm-clang-libc-linux/