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Annotate This: On Marginalia
“Marginalia” refers to the marks made in the margins of a book or other document, including scribbles, comments, annotations, critiques, doodles, or illustrations.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
ReNoted: Marginalia, or 5 Ways to Write in Your Books
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To leverage marginalia, you’d only need to create a reference note off of what you captured in the margins.
Bob Doto • A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly - A Zettelkasten Primer
Montaigne’s handwriting is incredible. You see him writing on and in the margins of his essay. I’m not sure how much restructuring actually went on, and how much was further explorations, and meta-streams on old ideas. TBD. Still. It’s a neat and analog form of externalized though.
This passage from Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From, which is discussing Darwin’s use of keeping a commonplace book (a practice I have always loved myself) as a vital part of where his most important ideas came from, just jumped off the page at me:
“The great minds of the period —Milton, Bacon, Locke were zealous believers in the memory-en
... See moreFlorilegia were compilations of excerpts from other writings, essentially mashing up selected passages and connecting dots from existing texts to illuminate a specific topic or doctrine or idea. The word comes from the Latin for “flower” and “gather.” The florilegium is commonly considered one of the earliest recorded examples of remix culture.
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