Theory of Notebooks
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Theory of Notebooks
a better place to put the ideas + insights that resonate with you than a personal notebook
The slip-box is the shipping container of the academic world. Instead of having different storage for different ideas, everything goes into the same slip-box and is standardised into the same format. Instead of focusing on the in-between steps and trying to make a science out of underlining systems, reading techniques or excerpt writing, everything
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Add 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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ntra-subject : Within a particular subject, you'll have an organization. You'll have your speed thoughts for that subject, you'll have your maps, you'll have your big dissertations (``Point of Interest'', or ``POI''), you'll have your cheat sheets, your abbreviations/shorthands (``A/S'') particular to that subject, all sorts of wonderful things. Mo... See more