Note taking - Methods
Steer a middle course between unhelpful shallows and mystifying depths.
There are good notes and bad notes
There is a difference between notes that are helpful to you when you revisit them and notes that are not so helpful (high- or low- quality entry to our knowledge base).
Here are some great articles that talks about writing down what we learn (or want to or trying to learn) and understand (in addition to a lot of other helpful topics). They also talks about the process to take notes.
- https://protesilaos.com/books/2022-06-25-knowledge-presence/
- https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/write-down-what-youve-done/
Zettelkasten
Other terms for the same method
- card file
A Zettelkasten (German for “slip box”) consists of small items of information that may be linked to each other through subject headings or other metadata such as numbers and tags. It is often used as a system of note-taking and personal knowledge management for research, study, and writing.
In the 1990s, such software inspired the invention of wikis.
(source - Wikipedia)
https://zettelkasten.de/ (There are many good articles about zettlekasten method in this website)
Reading material
- https://modelthinkers.com/playbook/build-a-latticework-not-a-list
- https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/philosophy