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Note-Taking when Reading the Web and RSS
- My old belief was that storing all these links in a souped-up database would lead me to magically generate new insights about the topics I write about. After several years of banging my head into a wall, I realized that to generate new insights from these links I would need a new approach.
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs o... See morefrom Three apps that made me more productive this year by Casey Newton
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Zettelkasten - thinking inside the box
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How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
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Digital Zettelkasten solutions allow you to create project-specific pages, where you can not only structure your thoughts and conceptualise the chapters of your draft, but also collect and sort the notes for this specific project without fear that they will water down or interfere with the slip-box itself. You can even change the notes according to
... See morefrom How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking by Sönke Ahrens
- Most "note-taking" or "knowledge management" software acts as a passive storage container. You create notes, shuffle them around into folders, add a few tags, and then they sit there. Waiting. Until you consciously remember to go looking for them.
from Programmable Notes by Maggie Appleton
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Casey newton zettelkasten - creates a note for each atomic idea and adds to it/etc. eg “google is getting worse.” Maybe I should do that with my ideas as well, and maybe this would make it easier to come back to?
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