- Nick Milo: note-taking is just the capture step. Note-making is where you contend with the idea you’re putting in it to make connections to to your already existing notes. Pure capture without deeper consideration leads only to transient notes.
- Note-making: externalized thinking that creates explicit and implicit connections among your notes and ideas.
- A note is only as valuable as the contexts in which it can contribute.
Gardening analogy
- atomic note: seed that could grow into a great oak, waiting to be developed, with the end-goal of reaching the evergreen stage
- Stage of development: seed > seedling > sapling > evergreen
- 📤 seedbox: items that you are or will be actively working on
- 🌱 seedling: items grown from literature notes that still need incubation
- 🍀 sapling: items in need of planting among other trees
- 🌲 evergreen: fundamental unit of knowledge work, stable for dense linking to and from
- 🍎 fruit: original work harvested from the garden
Source: Types of Notes in a PKM explained with a Gardening Analogy (Part I) | Nick Ang
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