Theory of Notebooks
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Theory of Notebooks
Saved by Alex Dobrenko
Working like this will leave you with a lot of different notes in many different places. Writing, then, will mean relying heavily on your brain to remember where and when these notes were written down.
Translate them into something coherent
For many people, their understanding of notetaking was formed in school. You were probably first told to write something down because it would be on the test. This implied that the minute the test was over, you would never reference those notes again. Learning was treated as essentially disposable, with no intention of that knowledge being useful f
... See moreAdd a note to the slip-box either behind the note you directly refer to or, if you do not follow up on a specific note, just behind the last note in the slip-box. Number it consecutively. The Zettelkasten numbers the notes automatically. “New note” will just add a note with a new number. If you click “New note sequence,” the new note will be regist
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