Linked Notes
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Linked notes1 are a way to use Writing-as-a-user-interface-that-facilitates-thinking. The point is not writing notes per se, but accumulating knowledge, developing insight, and enhancing creativity. They are continuously-refined, living documents.
Principles that help:
- Notes should be atomic.
- Notes should be densely linked.
- Don’t copy paste: Processing information promotes conceptual understanding.
- Keep note history to prevent hindsight bias. It also helps to track evolution of thinking.
- Linked-notes-should-be-concept-oriented. Note titles should be a tiny summary of their content.
The principles I use are mostly inherited from Zettelkasten. They help me achieve what I think should be the Requirements-for-a-linked-note-taking-system.
Technical implementation details of linked notes.
#TODO Linked-notes-are-a-curated-personalized-API-for-enhancing-thinking
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Zettelkasten, by Niklas Luhmann. Evergreen notes, by Andy Matuschak. Digital gardens. All describe somewhat similar note-taking systems of continuously refined and interlinked notes, adjusted to each person’s preference and needs. Therefore I call them simply “linked notes”. ↩
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