https://eleanorkonik.com/the-difficulties-of-teaching-notetaking/
A fascinating take on why we don't teach study skills and note taking the way they had traditionally been done in the past. What we're teaching and teaching toward has changed dramatically.
Story of a scientist trying to optimize for solutions of Wordle.
Nothing brilliant here. Depressing that the story creates a mythology around algorithms as the solution rather than delving in a bit into the math and science of information theory to explain why this solution is the correct one.
Desperately missing from the discussion are second and third order words that would make useful guesses to further reduce the solution space for actual readers.
Schmidt, J. F. (2018). Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: The Fabrication of Serendipity. Sociologica, 12(1), 53–60. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/8350
A quick overview of Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten and it's basic shape with a few interesting quotes. Nothing really brilliant or new here for me. There were two portions mentioning computer science which gave too much credulity to the comparison between the zettelkasten and a computer and erased the earlier history of these techniques. I'm hoping that there's far more in the longer article in the book Forgetting Machines.
I'm a bit irked to continually find that Luhmann's second system is still incomplete and particularly section 9.
https://danallosso.substack.com/p/end-of-book-club-and-whats-next
I could be all in on Debt: The First 5000 years!
https://smithery.com/2022/01/14/making-the-most-of-moments-that-matter/
A company created a custom commonplace book for attendees of a conference. Not sure how they tummeled people into using them in interesting ways though.
Could also have done something along the lines of a sketchnote process as well. I liked their idea of having stickers to place in these as well, though that's more of a scrapbook process...
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Tom Critchlow </span> in Tom Critchlow on Twitter: "Love this meditation from @willsh on building artefacts, commonplace books, and more: https://t.co/zJmkMcaUN2 (and look at those physical keys they forged for a workshop!!!!)" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>01/22/2022 23:05:44</time>)</cite></small>
https://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2022/
In the bustle of the holidays and life, I'd nearly forgotten to check out NiemanLab's annual Predictions for Journalism. I can't wait to catch up on the series.
h/t @Klingebeil
https://johannesklingebiel.de/2021/03/10/new-website.html
I know that Johannes has a digital garden, but I didn't expect his post to take the turn it did! What a lovely little piece.
reddit.com/r/DigitalGardens/comments/pchsu4/just_discovered_rdigitalgardens_and_now_im/
Other digital garden aliases:
https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/marie-kondo-tokimeku-spark-joy-translation-266496
on the translation of tokimeku, or ときめく, as "spark joy"
Wish the interviewer could have gotten more out of Cox here. Sad that there's a book's worth of material and most of the text is the interviewer's questions which at best tease the book.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/
I can't help but think about comparative anthropology here. The definition of progress is an important one as what may be perceived as progress by one group of people may not be judged so by another.
A short, interesting essay with some useful quotes. Sadly much of it is derivative of many other sources I've read and studied, so this is a rather unenlightening little work for me. This piece and the popularity of the book from which it derives may have helped to popularize some of the ideas of memory going into the late 80s and early 90s however.
There are some interesting tidbits of the use of memory with respect to psychoanalysis into the 1900s with figures like Freud and Jung, but one would need to go deeper than the brief suggestions in the final paragraphs here.
https://danallosso.substack.com/p/three-basic-elements-of-taking-notes
Allosso outlines a bit about how he dovetails Research Rabbit (discovery), Obsidian (writing, linking), and Zotero (citations, reading).
Until recently[30][31][32] there have been almost no attempts to compare the different theories and discuss them together.
- Letelier, J C; Cárdenas, M L; Cornish-Bowden, A (2011). "From L'Homme Machine to metabolic closure: steps towards understanding life". J. Theor. Biol. 286 (1): 100–113. Bibcode:2011JThBi.286..100L. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.06.033. PMID 21763318.
- Igamberdiev, A.U. (2014). "Time rescaling and pattern formation in biological evolution". BioSystems. 123: 19–26. doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2014.03.002. PMID 24690545.
- Cornish-Bowden, A; Cárdenas, M L (2020). "Contrasting theories of life: historical context, current theories. In search of an ideal theory". BioSystems. 188: 104063. doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2019.104063. PMID 31715221. S2CID 207946798.
Relationship to the broader idea in Loewenstein as well...
saw that tumblr post again about this being a culture of people who built MASSIVE settlements and then every 60-80 years just burnt them to the ground, so need to read up on the wikipedia page at some point
後來藉由Reading note的方式，發現能讓閱讀後的記憶持續更久，忘記時也能藉由筆記迅速找到需要的資訊
文章篇幅長就比較容易有看了就忘的情況，常常一個段落要重複看幾次才能掌握其中的訊息，抑或是在文獻綜述階段閱讀的參考文獻等到要實際寫論文時記憶已經模糊
看這類句子先看動詞部分，能夠更理解句子的主要意思而非糾結於專業單字上，閱讀速度也有所提升
在大學以前所閱讀的英文文章大多是考試時的短文抑或是詞彙較日常的小說，而學術型論文中有大量不同專業領域的單字，若還是保持著以往邊看邊查單字的的習慣，閱讀速度則大幅降低，也比較難記住文章的重點內容
the internal mechanism of research articles
In this respect, Krajewski’s distinction between ‘search machines’ and ‘scholarly ma-chines’ is insufficient. Cf. Krajewski, ZettelWirtschaft, 66–7
What does Alberto Cevolini mean here? Read the reference to determine.
Christoph Meinel, ‘Enzyklopädie der Welt und Verzettelung des Wissens: Aporien der Empirie bei Joachim Jungius’, in Enzyklopädien der frühen Neuzeit. Beiträge zu ihrer Er-forschung, ed. Franz M. Eybl (Tübingen, 1995), 162–87; Richard Yeo, ‘Loose Notes and Ca-pacious Memory: Robert Boyle’s Note-Taking and its Rationale’, Intellectual History Review 20 (2010), 335–54; Alberto Cevolini, ‘The Art of trascegliere e notare in Early Modern Ital-ian Culture’, Intellectual History Review 29 (2019), forthcoming.
r/antiwork reading list - go through this
r/anarchy101 reading list - go through this
r/socialism reading list - go through this
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An incredibly short, but dense essay on annotating books, but one which doesn't go into the same sort of detail as he gets in his book length treatment in How to Read a Book.
Missing here is the social aspect of annotating a book. In fact, he actively recommends against loaning one's annotated books for fear of losing the details and value in them.
Severi (2015) discusses evidence for the use of pictographicwriting systems among the indigenous peoples of NorthAmerica, and why their characterization as ‘oral’ societies ismisleading in many ways.
https://lindylearn.substack.com/p/lindylearn-reflections-roadmap-and
Some interesting ideas to watch here.
I remember a Twitter app service that was built around Twitter lists that I was an early user of, but I'm not able to find it now. I'm not sure if it's even still around after Twitter killed off a lot of their API access years ago.
https://pauljacobson.me/2022/01/11/learning-vim/
Thanks for this Paul. I've heard the learning curve is relatively steep as well. It certainly helps to have some clear and useful tutorials, so thanks for sharing the best of what you've found. Maybe I'll make the same jump you've done as it's always something I've wanted to tinker around with.
https://soatok.blog/2022/01/12/dont-dunk-the-gunk/
Clever way of making the internet a nicer place.
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'> Alexander Wang </span> in Alexander Wang on Twitter: "After discovering the idea of "A Meta-Layer for Notes" (https://t.co/EioyyptzCb), I started to try reading in this way ↓. https://t.co/lOhRyeytXZ" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>01/11/2022 09:15:59</time>)</cite></small>
Bush 1939 Warning: Biblio formatting not applied. BushVannevar. Mechanization and the Record. Vannevar Bush Papers. Box 138, Speech Article Book File. Washington D.C. Library of Congress. 1939.
Original paper that became The Atlantic article As We May Think (1945).
http://www.focaalblog.com/2021/12/22/chris-knight-wrong-about-almost-everything/
Chris Knight is a senior research fellow in anthropology at University College London, where he forms part of a team researching the origins of our species in Africa. His books include Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture (1991) and Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics (2016).
Another apparent refutation of Graeber and Wengrow.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-flawed-history-of-humanity
David A. Bell teaches history at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020).
Critique of Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything
Where is he right? Wrong? How does this dovetail with the evidence within the book?
Read in relation to marak being kicked off of Github today.
https://jon.bo/posts/can-blogging-be-simple/
Syndicated copy: https://twitter.com/jondotbo/status/1475581785874612234
Has some hint of the IndieWeb space here. My first thought is of micro.blog---for a reasonable subscription price it's relatively easy for folks to get started and allow customization and flexibility if they want/need it.
It also tries to meet users where they're at, so if you've already got a site you can still participate and it can provide services one may not want to self-host like a social reader, webmentions, micropub, etc.
To encourage people to write its UI starts out with short Twitter like notes, and if you keep writing, it provides you with a "title" field to turn a post into an article.
https://snarfed.org/2022-01-08_happy-10th-birthday-bridgy
Congratulations Ryan! Thanks so much for all your work on Brid.gy and for/on behalf of the bigger community. I'm sending my reply directly from my own website to underline some of your point, but I'm going to have send a like using Twitter with hopes that it feels some of the love as well. 😁
Thanks again!
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https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/17/altweb-indieweb-squabble.html
This week on soap operas in the small web....
https://anaulin.org/blog/book-notes-how-to-take-smart-notes/
A brief book review of Sönke Ahrens' How to Take Smart Notes with highlights.
https://t73f.de/blog/2020/zettelkasten/
Sounds like Detlef Stern actually saw the Marbach exhibition on "Machines of the imagination".
He's also got a fairly large list of software that is commonly used to create a digital zettelkasten.
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1477714767854850049.html
original thread: https://twitter.com/garwboy/status/1478003120483577859?s=20
This takes a part Johann Hari's Guardian article Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen, but it does so mostly from a story/narrative perspective. Burnett is taking the story as a science article (it was labeled "psychology") when it's really more of a personal experience story with some nods to science.
Sadly the story works more on the emotional side than the scientific side. It would be nice to have a more straightforward review of some of the actual science literature with some of the pros/cons laid out to make a better decision.
Thread from neuroscientist refutation of portions of this article:
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http://cdevroe.com/2022/01/05/bye-social-media/
A reference here to https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media which I'd bookmarked to read later today.
https://www.manton.org/2022/01/05/ive-updated-microblogs.html
I've been waiting to see plugins appear for micro.blog!
Raw capitalism mimics the logic of cancer within our body politic.
Folks who have been reading David Wengrow and David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything are sure to appreciate the sentiment here which pulls in the ideas of biology and evolution to expand on their account and makes it a much more big history sort of thesis.
Human ultrasociality and the invisible hand: foundational developments in evolutionary science alter a foundational concept in economics
December 2014
Journal of Bioeconomics 17(1)
DOI: 10.1007/s10818-014-9192-x
by David Sloan Wilson and John Malcolm Gowdy
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jag Bhalla</span> in The Other Invisible Hand - NOEMA (<time class='dt-published'>01/05/2022 12:12:29</time>)</cite></small>
Cross reference: https://hyp.is/g3DHAm5jEey8o3NhnLbsew/www.noemamag.com/the-other-invisible-hand
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/style/chaste-marriage-church.html
“It was what we had to do to be together. It wasn’t so bad.”
https://jamesg.blog/2022/01/04/simple-taxonomies/
Keeping things simple is a useful thing, particularly when there aren't any consuming applications that use that sort of complexity. A simple note with some tags can be incredibly versatile.
https://diggingthedigital.com/een-alternatief-voor-post-kinds/
I know some of your pains Frank. I do wish that someone might come along and help David Shanske convert the plugin for Gutenberg use.
The thing I love the most is that the plugin does its best to provide excellent reply contexts.
l in love with hiking from spending hours in the White Mountains with her dad, spending most weekends in the summer an
https://darntough.com/blogs/the-alternate-stitch/how-to-wash-merino-wool-socks
https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/critique-of-zettelksten.html
Manfred Kuehn looks at Karl Kraus' criticism of the idea of a zettelkasten as a tool which can be misused.
Of course this begs the question of what one is using their index card catalog for? Are you using it as a rhetorical thinking and creation device or simply a second memory?
We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us. —Winston Churchill
Life imitates art. We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. — John M. Culkin, “A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan” (The Saturday Review, March 1967) (Culkin was a friend and colleague of Marshall McLuhan)
Seneca on Gathering Ideas by Manfred Kuehn on Monday, December 24, 2007 https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/seneca-on-gathering-ideas.html
A quick look at how some of the ancient ideas of rhetoric may affect one's note taking and thinking. I love that this is one of his first posts on a blog on note taking. Too many miss this history.r
https://tim.blog/2007/12/05/how-to-take-notes-like-an-alpha-geek-plus-my-2600-date-challenge/
Tim Ferriss discuses some of his take on his note taking process. Nothing new or interesting here, though he seems to focus more on to do lists and follow up material for productivity purposes rather than remembering or connecting details after-the-fact and in the long term.
He does outline and highly recommend having an index, but his version has a quirk of number pages as 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 instead of a more straightforward whole number system. Presumably this save the time and effort of putting a number on each page, though one could just number either the even or odd pages this way if necessary and presume the missing numbers.
Nothing really mind bending here.
Mostly an historical list of online tools for note taking.
No discussion of actual functionality or usefulness. Sounds more like for making to do lists and passing notes rather than long term knowledge management and upkeep. Nothing about the benefits of centralizing data in one place.
meh...
https://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2020/09/a-book-which-kills.html
A short piece about the book Shadows from the Walls of Death by R. C. Kedzie to highlight arsenic in wallpaper.
Future Reading: Digitization and its discontents. By Anthony Grafton October 29, 2007 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/05/future-reading
https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/planning-for-unexpected-discoveries.html
Manfred Keuhn reflects on serendipity in note taking and how Niklas Luhmann's system helped to produce it.
This general thesis is similar to that of Raymond Llull's combinatorial thought which forces the juxtaposition of disparate ideas to shake out new ones.
Neo Alphasmart by Manfred Keuhn https://web.archive.org/web/20201021190716/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/neo-alphasmart.html
What we Remember by Manfred Kuehn https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/
archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021192005/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/
Dutch psychologist Wilem Wagenaar conducted memory related experiments on recollecting what, where, who, and when for the most interesting experiences of his days. It turned out that the "What?" was most useful followed by where? and who?, but that "when?" was "useless in every instance".
p.116 of Stefan Klein, The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity, Marlowe & Company, 2007, New York.
Despite this, timestamps might serve other functions within a note taking system. The might include conceiving of ideas, temporal order of ideas presented, etc.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/can-distraction-free-devices-change-the-way-we-write
A surface look at writing and writing interfaces, but one which misses part of the point of what writing tools should facilitate. Perhaps there's a different mode of creative writing that Julian's getting at and mentions tangentially, but I feel that given the context of non-fiction writing, it's missing the boat. My framing of non-fiction writing also meshes into the creative versions as well.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/can-distraction-free-devices-change-the-way-we-write
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Aaron Davis </span> in 📑 Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write? | Read Write Collect (<time class='dt-published'>12/27/2021 14:09:33</time>)</cite></small>
https://luhmann.surge.sh/learning-how-to-read
Learning How to Read by Niklas Luhmann
Not as dense as Mortimer J. Adler's advice, but differentiates reading technical material versus poetry and novels. Moves to the topic of some of the value of note taking as a means of progressive summarization which may have implications for better remembering material.
https://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes Communicating with Slip Boxes: An Empirical Account by Niklas Luhmann (transl. Manfred Kuehn)
THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE DOMESTIC BOOKROOM. Byers, Reid.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 7 x 10 inches cloth with dust jacket xii, 540 pages ISBN: 9781584563884
Law One: The more reading you assign, the less the students will read. Law Two: The more you talk in class, the less the students will read.
Two Iron Laws of College Reading https://crookedtimber.org/2021/12/22/two-iron-laws-of-college-reading/
Hiding in Plain Sight: Democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas by David Graeber and David Wengrow in Lapham's Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/hiding-plain-sight
The Dawn of Everything, Part 2 by Miriam Ronzoni
https://crookedtimber.org/2021/12/17/the-dawn-of-everything-part-2/
Not as solid as the opening of her review, or much of a review so much as a brief summary of the broad take-aways of the book.
https://write.as/matt/what-would-a-real-web3-look-like
This roughly reflects my own thoughts about the "next web".
Why is dystopian sci-fi seem more ubiquitous than optomistic sci-fi?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-transcend-geometric-theory-of-motion-20211209/
Read on 2021-12-16, but didn't provide a reference link.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CXH2-x3Jt1S/
Hilarious!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School
read large chunks, but not all of the article.
Definitely needs to be decolonized as it is a bit too rosy in tone.
https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2021/12/federated-bookshelves-update/
This gives me an idea about how I might do this in WordPress.
Dreams or vision quests: among Iroquoian-speaking peoplesin the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was consideredextremely important literally to realize one’s dreams. ManyEuropean observers marvelled at how Indians would be willingto travel for days to bring back some object, trophy, crystal oreven an animal like a dog that they had dreamed of acquiring.Anyone who dreamed about a neighbour or relative’spossession (a kettle, ornament, mask and so on) couldnormally demand it; as a result, such objects would oftengradually travel some way from town to town. On the GreatPlains, decisions to travel long distances in search of rare orexotic items could form part of vision quests.34
- On ‘dream economies’ among the Iroquois see Graeber 2001: 145–9. David Graeber. 2001. Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. New York: Palgrave.
These dreams and vision quests sound suspiciously familiar to Australian indigenous peoples' "dreaming" and could be incredibly similar to much larger and longer songlines in North American cultures.
Most contemporaryarchaeologists are well aware of this literature, but tend to getcaught up in debates over the difference between ‘trade’ and‘gift exchange’, while assuming that the ultimate point of both isto enhance somebody’s status, either by profit, or by prestige,or both. Most will also acknowledge that there is somethinginherently valuable, even cosmologically significant, in thephenomenon of travel, the experience of remote places or theacquisition of exotic materials; but in the last resort, much ofthis too seems to come down to questions of status or prestige,as if no other possible motivation might exist for peopleinteracting over long distances; for some further discussion ofthe issues see Wengrow 2010b.
David Wengrow 2010b. ‘The voyages of Europa: ritual and trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, c.2300–1850 .’ In William A. Parkinson and Michael L. Galaty (eds), Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, pp. 141–60.
Read this for potential evidence for the mnemonic devices for information trade theory.
Professor Michael Lackner (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) has kindly made a pdf version of his German translation of Matteo Ricci’s Xiguo jifa, the Occidental Method of Memory (1596) available to the Art of Memory forum. Thought there may be some people on this forum who are interested in other books from Matteo Ricci. I’m hoping our German-English members could help translate to English. Reference: Lackner, Michael. (1986). Das vergessene Gedächtnis: Die jesuitische mnemotechnische Abhandlung Xiguo jifa, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. Thanks to Josh for uploading the document here: https://artofmemory.com/files/pdf/Michael_Lackner_Das_vergessene_Gedaechtnis.pdf
https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/german-translation-of-matteo-riccis-xiguo-jifa/69462
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>David Wengrow</span> in Video: Graeber and Wengrow on the Myth of the Stupid Savage (<time class='dt-published'>12/19/2021 20:51:44</time>)</cite></small>
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26337970
Reviewed Work: Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory, and the Transmission of Culture by LYNNE KELLY Review by: Asa R. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26337970
The article that preceded the book ("Farewell to the 'childhood of man': ritual, seasonally, and the origins of inequality", https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12247) has been cited 57 times since 2015.
https://crookedtimber.org/2021/12/14/the-dawn-of-everything-part-1/
A partial review and summary of The Dawn of Everything.
Worth coming back to review over the commentary later.
http://www.diveintomark.link/2006/digg-users-are-dumber-than-goldfish
Users of some aggregation sites collectively forget prior articles and news and resubmit them at intervals. This may give rise to the colloquialism "goldfish effect".
https://kandr3s.co/post/indieweb-is-the-way
Congratulations!
critical edition of Harrison’s manuscript: Thomas Harrison, The Ark of Studies, ed. Alberto Cevolini (Turnhout, 2017)