Personal Knowledge Management Notes

• ☯️ The Flow
• Most people take only transient notes
• Most people use notes as a bucket for storage or scratch thoughts
• Close open loops
• Knowledge work should accrete
• Better note taking misses the point; what matters is better thinking
• Ingestion
• Digestion
• ☁️ The Stellar Nursery
• ☁️ Nebula
• ⛅️ Proto Note
• ☀️ Main-Sequence Note
• ✨ Constellation
• Spaced repetition
• Spacing effect
• Main sequence notes should be atomic
• Main sequence notes should be concept oriented
• Main sequence notes should be densely linked
• Prefer positive notes titles to promote linking
• Prefer note titles with complete phrases to sharpen claims
• Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies
• Egestion
• Skillful reading is generally non-linear
• Create speculative outlines while writing notes

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