Note's purpose
Index notes can be seen as the “furthest zoomed out” notes of the vault. They represent a map of concepts and ideas or are strictly for utility. Index notes may also contain some meta information about a certain topic but only rudimentary as anything deeper should be captured in a concept or idea note
Taxonomy and structure notes
- We will aim to follow an augmented zettlekasten workflow for our notes.
- Since tags are “fuzzy”,1 we will maintain a tag taxonomy to continue to understand the significance of a given tag. It is through a tagging system that we may also delineate from types of notes.
- We will maintain documentation as to the folder structure of our vault because folders face the same “fuzzy” association limitations that tags do.
principles guiding our note taking
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connecting new ideas to what you already know strengthens your memory of new ideas. This will be implemented by integrating regular revisiting of ideas to form new connections with other ideas.
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No collectors fallacy and note hoarding (i.e not taking notes just for its own sake)
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To that end, we recognise that Note taking must be used for a purpose
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An inbox is only effective if its being emptied, ideally more than entries are being added.
Note taking workflow
Our workflow will consist of an emergent bottom up structure that
- rephrase and take notes from literature that interests us, creating literature notes should be rephrasing;
- decontextualize and distill atomic idea from our literature notes; and
- spend time perusing this vault to find potential connections of new ideas to what we already know or has already been added. This will allow ideas to grow and form connections between ideas
In doing so, we will attempt a daily writing practice and study various topics together. These topics will be distilled into their atomic idea.
footnotes
Footnotes
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Tags don’t often provide any valuable structure in that associations between similarly tagged items do not indicate their association and merely group them into unordered lists. ↩