One word that comes back often is immediate: intuition is this thing that you immediately feel rather than think, rather than rationally explain
intuition as immediate (vlg pattern sensing)
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there’s no hard definition. I’ve been talking about this topic more and more over the past few months, and I noticed that people think very differently about this word. And I find that fascinating
no def of intuition, but a intuitive sense of understanding of the term.
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[[Marieke van Vliet p]] on intuition in pkm, from her PKM Summit 2026 session
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Takeaways This list isn’t comprehensive. I’m still experimenting and would love to learn from your experiments as well.
I don't feel convinced by specfically the naming of these roles it seems, and also don't per se find them very amanuensis like. The amanuensis / assistant frame is a useful one as such (not just for AI, but also for thinking up new [[Personal Software]] for [[Mijn personal tools list]].
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9. Reflector This final role is different. Whereas the others took as the object of inquiry a particular work — e.g., a novel or a movie — this last one takes as the object your knowledge garden itself. That is, you point the LLM to a series of notes to analyze patterns over time and suggest improvements. Example: I fed all 52 weekly posts from my humanities crash course to Claude Code, and asked it to identify the various roles in which I used AI for learning throughout the year. Its answers — with some curation from me — are the roles you just read. Suggested prompt: Here are my notes from [X weeks/months] of reading on [TOPIC]. What patterns do you notice in what I pay attention to? What do I seem to find most interesting, and what do I seem to avoid or underweight?
Role 9 Reflector, give it a bunch of your own notes to analyze patterns. Not sure it differs much of the Connector/Analyst roles other than the object of inquiry being your own notes. I thought of doing this for my blog in one of the earlier roles just now.
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8. Mapper This one’s a bit more esoteric. Some people — me included — are primarily visual: diagrams and drawings aid our understanding. Concept maps can be especially helpful. I’ve built an Agent Skill to allow LLMs like Claude draw concept maps. (Download it from Github.) Example: I used this mapping skill to generate a concept map of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. It’s not especially insightful, but more of a proof point of using LLMs in a more visual modality. Suggested prompt: (Note: install my LLMapper Skill before issuing this prompt) Generate a concept map for [WORK] centered on the question: “How does the novel’s treatment of [THEME] illuminate [BROADER QUESTION]?”
Role 8 Mapper. Interesting role, though I wonder if the friction in making concept maps is actually the work to be done here by yourself. Getting a mapping exercise ready (elements that likely need to be on the map, feeding it my [[Systems Convening by Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner]] mapping elements library) I think would be useful, and apply my Excalidraw template to it e.g. More amanuensis like too, I think.
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7. Analyst This role will also help you appreciate a work from a different perspective. It’s easy: you ask for the LLM to apply a specific critical lens to a reading. Common lenses include Freudian, Marxist, feminist, Girardian, etc. Example: The same week I read Freud, my son and I watched Predator, the 1980s sci fi film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. For fun, I asked ChatGPT to analyze the film through a Freudian lens. The result was both enlightening and hilarious. Suggested prompt: Apply a [Marxist / feminist / postcolonial / Jungian] reading to [WORK]. What does this lens reveal that a neutral summary would miss?
role 7 analyst. The description is not analysis in the data/argument sense, but interpretative more like. Vgl [[Filosofische stromingen als gereedschap 20030212105451]] taking a different perspectives on a question to bring thinking further.
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6. Adversary Here’s a fun role: asking for an LLM to push back on your position or steelman the opposing point of view. The idea is to expand your understanding by bringing your assumptions to the surface and challenging them. Example: After watching Modern Times, I asked ChatGPT to correct my understanding of the movie as a work of Marxist propaganda. The LLM convinced me that the film is in fact more of a humanist statement than a political one. As a result of this interaction, I changed my mind on Chaplin’s work. Suggested prompt: Here are my notes on [TOPIC]. Please help me see it through the lens of someone who might be sympathetic to [OPPOSING POSITION] without fully realizing it. What could I improve? Where is my argument weakest? [paste notes]
Role 6 Adversary. To challenge assumptions, better understand opposing views. This is a very interesting role. Having a debater, not as performance, but to deepen knowledge
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5. Recommender This is a useful role for deepening your understanding of a subject: asking for related works that reflect similar themes. It’s also a use case where I noticed considerable improvements in LLM performance over 2025. Example: Early in 2025, I read Confucius’s Analects. Perplexity was ahead in web-backed interactions at the time, so I asked it for a list of classic Chinese movies that reflected Confucian values. It responded with five suggestions, some of which it hallucinated. But one of them, Spring in a Small Town, was a bona fide classic — and I likely wouldn’t have learned of it without an LLM. (Later in the year, other chatbots gained this ability and hallucinations dropped across the board.) Suggested prompt: I just finished [WORK]. Recommend three films that explore similar themes or ideas. Prioritize films with strong critical reputations — I’d rather have one great recommendation than five mediocre ones.
Role 5 recommender, described as recommending works to deepen one's understanding. The example to me is more about finding more superficial things to see content in a different shape again (here films, podcasts before), a broadening. Perhaps to get a more emotional tie in with a concept, bringing it into scope of one's perception of beauty, next to K as such?
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4. Orienter This role is something of an inversion of the validator. Instead of asking for feedback on your notes after reading a text, here you ask the AI for guidance before reading. You’re looking for framing, historical context, high level outlines, etc. — ideally, without spoilers. Example: Before reading Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Illych, I uploaded both books to NotebookLM, which created a podcast for me that explained their thematic contexts. Listening to this podcast in my daily walk helped me better understand the readings. Suggested prompt: I’m about to read [WORK] for the first time. Give me enough context to make sense of it — historical background, key arguments, things to watch for — but don’t spoil the experience of discovering it myself.
Role 4 Orientor, asking about works' meaning upfront as prep for one's own reading. As inversion of the validator in role 2. The example is about giving something a different form for consumption (comparison of works as podcast). NotebookLM used.
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3. Connector Here’s yet another role you can easily do via chat: identifying thematic, philosophical, or narrative parallels between works. Note I wrote “works” — it’s fun and illuminating to ask for connections across media, genre, time, etc. Example: I watched Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation on the same week I read Oedipus Rex. For fun, I asked ChatGPT for possible parallels between the two works. Its reply was enlightening: it pointed out how the protagonists of both stories undertook an obsessive investigation that uncovered terrible knowledge. Suggested prompt: I’ve been reading [WORK A] and [WORK B]. What philosophical or thematic threads connect them? I’m looking for non-obvious resonances, not surface similarities.
Role 3 connector, also chat based. Connector seems a generic term (and in general, wrt [[Netwerkleren Connectivism 20100421081941]] a own brain effort), but the example is more about syntopic readng vgl [[Gebruik AI om podcasts syntopisch samen te vatten 20260306123338]]
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2. Validator Another basic role for AI is validating your understanding. To do this, you ask it to review your notes for errors or gaps, do basic fact checking, or critique your reasoning. Again, you can do this via the chat interface, but I also experimented with passing my notes in Obsidian using the Copilot plugin and in Emacs using gptel. Example: After reading The Epic of Gilgamesh, I wrote a note in Obsidian summarizing its plot. When I asked ChatGPT to critique my summary, it pointed out that I’d given the central character a redemption arc that isn’t present in the text. I’m so accustomed to the standard hero’s journey, that I projected it onto the book — and an LLM helped me correct this ‘hallucination.’ Suggested prompt: Here are my notes on [WORK]. What important ideas did I miss or underemphasize? Don’t rewrite my notes — just flag the gaps.
Role 2 validator of one's understanding, also seen as basic. Might be a good complement to e.g. turning some of my notes into [[Anki]] card decks or combine in another way w spaced repetition. [[Spaced repetition 20201012201559]] [[Connecting my PKM to Anki]]
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It was a messy process. That’s what you do in a garden! And the outcome wasn’t an enthusiastic endorsement of AI. Instead, I landed at a map of roles and modalities for how AI can help at different points in the spectrum. Let’s look at nine of these roles.
there are more than 9 it seems. Perhaps check his blog over the year to see what else. Says process was messy, bc yes garden, and implies mixed results.
Quick glance at the 9 roles I don't see all of them as fitting the amanuensis metaphor imo
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Robots in the garden
Arango tried it out on major texts (reminiscent of the original version of [[How to Read a Book The Ultimate Guide by Mortimer Adler]], not the 2nd edition. ) Over a year he came to define 9 roles for the robots in his garden.
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I consider amanuensis to be the ideal role for AIs in your knowledge garden.
Can relate. I think this metaphor implies a lot of agentic use too
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Some early modern scholars employed live-in secretaries to do various tasks for them: researching, indexing, archiving, retrieving, organizing, translating, summarizing, and running errands. While not as famous as their employers, these people were often seen more as collaborators than anonymous servants. They were called amanuenses
Not sure why going back so far is needed to make the metaphor work? Research assistants, PAs cover similar territory. Or is the key diff the 'live-in' bit. Making it more a continuous relationship and collaboration, less transactional and joblike?
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I get most value around the middle of the spectrum. There’s a historical precedent here.
The middle of the spectrum Arango dubs the amanuensis.
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AI — which is being explicitly framed as a prosthetic mind
another metaphor, AI as the second brain, the prosthetic mind. Not sure I've noticed this framing. More like again the productivity angle, do this complicated thing in an hour, not weeks. And again outsourcing of cognition too. It's mostly not even seen as automation, but autonomous handwaving magic.
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if the point is creating a place for your first brain to work better, that raises an increasingly pressing question: what role should AI
core question of the talk: if your PKM is a support for your brain, what role for AI.
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A garden provides solace and recreation — the opposite of the anxiety that overhangs systems built as productivity hacks. My PKM system provides solace and recreation. So I call it my “knowledge garden,” riffing on the popular digital garden metaphor and Andy Matuschak’s evergreen notes, among others.
A garden provides recreation. Recognisable as a trait my notes have. My title Garden of the Forking Paths for conceptual notes collection points the same way
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I approach my knowledge garden with Field Notes’s tagline in mind: “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.” I don’t keep a PKM to remember things later, but because writing, structuring, and connecting ideas is how I think. That the words are there for recall later is a bonus, not the main attraction. Clearer thinking is the “gold,” the notes merely record it happened.
Not fully agree with this. Yes, writing is the work/thinking (although it can also happen without it), and yes notes provide the trails of it (but is never the reporting of it) But recall is also a main attraction, just not in the exact same way, as resource for remixing and mash-ups in new thinking processes. Whenever I open a few random notes, new thoughts to note come to mind.
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Finally, for many gardeners, the fruit is only part of their garden’s value. Gardening is pleasurable per se. It’s not something they do just because they want to eat. After tall, it’s cheaper and easier to go to the supermarket. Instead, they garden because they find it fulfilling.
Garden yields are one resulting value, the gardening itself another
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Also, a garden’s structure can’t be rigidly top-down. While some structure is needed, the place’s form emerges over time as it meets real-world needs. Thinking about PKM as a productivity hack leads to overemphasizing upfront structures and workflows at the expense of the more patient approach required by organic processes.
this goes back to [[Warning, Tacit Assumptions May Derail PKM Conversations]] garden metaphor implies emergent structure, patience, organic processes, as well as a bit of planning, productivity implies top-down initialising.
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There are different kinds of gardens for different purposes. Some are for pleasure, while others are for growing food. Some are industrial; others artisanal. What they all have in common: things grow there. And it doesn’t happen overnight, but after much toil in the soil. For a garden to fulfill its purpose — whatever it might be — it must be stewarded over a long time.
Garden metaphor implies work / maintenance for things to grow
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more fruitful metaphor for PKMs is that of a garden. Many of us already talk about our PKM systems as “places” where we do focused work
garden metaphor as place we do work.
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Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff and Johnson explain that metaphors don’t just reveal how we talk about things; they also reveal and inform how we think about things, deep down
Key message of 1980 [[Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff Mark Johnson]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors_We_Live_By
Metaphors matter not just bc it shapes how the talk about things, but also how we think about them.
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That said, I think the “second brain” metaphor has three problems: It implies delegating cognition. The promised outcome is a prosthetic mind. That is, the system will relieve you of thinking and (especially!) long-term recall. (Westenberg: “I believed I was solving a problem of forgetting.”) It sets expectations PKMs can’t meet. This isn’t a promise current PKMs — even with AI — can deliver. The system won’t “extract the gold,” at least not for a long time and after a lot of work on your part. These are bad expectations to begin with. Even if PKMs could do this, you shouldn’t want this. If you want to think better, your goal shouldn’t be to delegate your thinking: It should be enabling your first brain to work better.
Arango has 3 issues with second brain metaphor: 1) implies delegation of thinking to it, 2) oversells pkm as delivering 'gold' (vgl Luhmann's 'septic tank' in contrast) 3) even if PKM could do it, they're not desirable traits. Iow PKM is primarily a tool to support your own brain, not outsourcing.
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But I also believe mindset influences the value you get from these systems. And unfortunately, the most common framing for PKMs sets the wrong mindset. It’s the metaphor in the title of Westenberg’s post: second brain.
Arango argues that disappointment in pkm is in part caused by faulty metaphors, such as second brain.
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[[Jorge Arango p]] talk at PKM Summit 2026 robots in the garden, a perspective on PKM and the use of gen AI in it
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PKM Summit session slides 'Serendipity Protocols' the one session I missed that seemed to create a stir
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2017 Podcast with [[Beat Döbeli]] recommended by [[David Lohner p]] at PKM Summit.
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Interview with [[Harold Jarche p]] on PKM etc.
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Well, PKM is not actually my idea. There are other people who are writing about personal knowledge management. I changed it to mastery because I wanted to move away from the knowledge management world, which was too much about big systems and big databases. I wanted to focus on what I, as an individual, do, and what we as a community or a network do. For example, how do we enable that kind of collaboration and cooperation? So, personal knowledge mastery just became the term because it is about mastery, and you never master it completely, right? It’s like any discipline, a lifelong thing. You continuously try to get better.
how Harold replaced the m in pkm for mastery. This comes very close to my [[Kenniswerk is ambacht 20040924200250]] artisanal view on knowledge work. The focus on practice in community, networks and on your own. Vgl [[% Practice Praktijk OP]]
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Right now, I have a book in progress with Clark Quinn. Clark and I have known each other for 20 years, and it’s based on PKM, but it’s more of a how-to manual, right down to the actual process of personal knowledge mastery. The working title is Seek and Share, but we’ll see where it goes. So, we’ve been working on that for several months now.
Harold is working on a book on PKM. Seek and Share is working title.
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I am donating a ticket to the PKM Summit in Utrecht, Netherlands on 20 and 21 March for a student at a Dutch institution for higher ed. On the off-chance that some one is following hypothes.is for my or the PKM tag's feed, mentioning it here too. Ping me before 20-2 if you want to apply.
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Expres zo volledig mogelijk om lezers het volledige beeld ervan te geven. Ruim vierduizend woorden over emoji en bestandsnamen en waarom ik dingen noem zoals ik ze noem en waarom ik doe zoals ik doe. Het stuk werd beter gelezen dan ik had voorzien
His ontology is using a lot emoji to make items recognisable.
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Ann Blair on info overload 16/17th c. (2003)
Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550-1700 in Zotero since 2022
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To write a paper in a Mathematica notebook is to reveal your results and methods at the same time; the published paper and the work that begot it. Which shouldn’t just make it easier for readers to understand what you did—it should make it easier for them to replicate it (or not). With millions of scientists worldwide producing incremental contributions, the only way to have those contributions add up to something significant is if others can reliably build on them. “That’s what having science presented as computational essays can achieve,” Wolfram said.
La idea y el uso de las libretas computacionales es menos generales que la de (Inter) Personal Knowledge Management, como era de esperarse y ha evidenciado nuestras prácticas en la comunidad de Grafoscopio, donde sus libretas interactivas fueron usadas extensivamente y de acuerdo a las necesidades descubiertas con la comunidad en la creación y articulación de flujos documentales a medida. Algo similar se puede decir en las ciencias sociales y humanas, donde también se escribe, pero no simulaciones de sistemas complejos.
En estos contextos comunitarios y de las ciencias amplias y estudios críticos, el hipertexto y la interactividad puede servir, pero más para explorar la memoria propia, imaginar y enactuar otras formas de comunicarla y construirla.
El énfasis actual en Cardumem, en lugar de Grafoscopio, y los posibles vínculos entre ambos reconoce estas otras posibilidades de interacción y computación desde esa memoria interpersonal e interactiva.
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Plus–Minus–Next ist eine einfache dreiteilige Reflexionsstruktur. Sie stammt von Anne-Laure Le Cunff und wurde über ihr Projekt Ness Labs und später ihr Buch Tiny Experiments bekannt. Der Kern ist schnell erklärt:
plus-minus-next comes from [[Tiny Experiments byAnne-Laure Le Cunff]], so #openvraag what her sources are.
they're a list of answers to three questions about the past week, what went well, what didn't and what do you conclude for coming week.
[[Tiny Experiments byAnne-Laure Le Cunff]] describes plus as 'any accomplishments that made you proud' (tadaa, sense of wonder, joy, gratefulnes etc) minus as challenges or obstacles (vgl Maandmap), regrets, mistakes made, straying from healthy habits. The next reads more like strategies/process for [[More like this less like that 20201111165305]]
It gives as source the ancient Greek πρᾶξις , plus 'centuries' of practical wisdom. So aligns it w general reflection, and [[Action Research is vraag-reflectief leven 20031215142900]]
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Next ist kein zusätzlicher Aufgabenstapel. Es ist auch keine Zielplanung. Next beantwortet eine engere Frage: Was mache ich nächste Woche leicht anders als diese Woche?
the next phase of the review not styled as more tasks (common result for me), and not additional goal planning. It's a more narrow question: what can I easily do different from this week. About practice/method/proces. Next items are sort of smart. The making-it-easy bit echoes [[Gewoonte maak het makkelijk 20201008140324]] from [[Atomic Habits by James Clear]]
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Entscheidend ist die Reihenfolge. Zuerst wird gesammelt, ohne sofort zu reagieren. Erst danach wird eine Konsequenz gezogen.
Answering questions first, and only afterwards look at consequences/next steps
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Eine der schlichtesten und zugleich brauchbarsten Formen dafür ist die Methode Plus–Minus–Next.
suggests plus-minus-next as a method to make reviews have more utility.
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Michael Gisiger on reviews.
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Ms. 2906: Technik des Zettelkastens (1968), 'Vortrag' lecture (added by hand at the top left) #1968/01/13 by Niklas Luhmann in the [[Niklas Luhmann-Archiv]] on the method of ZK
via [[Chris Aldrich p]]
It talks about the methods of adding material and finding it (mentioned at the end) back. Not about using the material.
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VII. Zum Schluss: aus persönlicher Erfahrung Andere arbeiten anders.
Ha! Personal experience: other people work differently. Never a truer word...
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Wird bei grösserem Umfang problematisch werden.Mir reichen im grossen und ganzen zwei Hilfsmittel aus:1) alphabetisches Stichwortverzeichnis;2) Notizen auf den Literaturzetteln, falls das Problemüber den Namen hochkommt.
for bigger collections, finding of nots becomes harder. Luhmann thought two tools sufficient generally: 1) alphabetical index of terms, 2) finding note refs on literature notes if you start out from the name of a literature source. Digitally you have full text search ofc too. Not mentioned here, but in all cases I'd assume a 'walk' through the notes, folllowing the connections, will always ensue. The point I think is never finding 'a note' or 'the note' you have in mind, but 'finding notes' that are of use now. The title of the section also says it generally and in plural 'the finding of notes'
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Daneben: Angaben über noch nicht gelesene Literaturzu bestimmten ThemenX in den Zettelkasten selbst anOrt und Stelle aufnehmen.X aus Anmerkungen in der gelesenen Literatur oder ausRezensionen, Verlagskatalogen usw.
Suggest to add references to unread literature directly in the ZK notes themselves (so not as a separate note in the bibliographic section). (I keep them in my bibliography section if they sound interesting to sometime acquire, clealry marked ofc).
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Für Bücher, Zeitschriftenaufsätze, die Sie in derHand gehabt und bearbeitet haben, empfiehlt sich einbesonderer Bereich im Zettelkasten, vorne oder hinten,mit Zetteln über bibliographische Angaben. Ein Zettelpro Buch. Wichtig: Beschränkung auf selbst überprüf-te Angaben.Ermöglicht abgekürztes Zitieren auf den Zetteln.
Keep separate section of book index, books you have 'held in your hands and worked on', with bibliographic notes, one note per book. Cautions to only include bibliographic info you have verified yourself (presumably meant here is not to copy bibliographic references of sources, but follow the ref to the source to verify also the basic bibliographic info)
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Überholtwerden unvermeidlich. Beweis eines Lernerfolgs.
nice. it is unavoidable that some notes will become obsolete / get surpassed. It is proof of a learning success.
This makes the volume of notes less a 'hoard' of knowledge, more a measure of the length of your learning journey?
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Auch Vorlesungsmitschriften, Notizen über Gespräche,Einfälle bei allen möglichen Gelegenheiten können in denZettelkasten hinübergearbeitet werden
anything can be processed into the notes. reading, lectures, conversations, thoughts you had.
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Kritisches Referieren ist zugleich eigene Gedankenarbeit,ist zugleich ein Lernprozess, ist zugleich ein Schlei-fen der eigenen Sprache.
critical referencing is 3 things at the same time: own thinking work, a learning process, and a way to hone your own language.
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Trotzdem eine gewisse Groborientschematisierung für den An-fang wichtig. Erleichtert das Finden von "Gegenden".Woher?Literaturliste, Lehrbücher.Nochmals: das ist kein Kernproblem.
at the start of a ZK a first rough scheme of topics might be useful, but not a core problem to solve. It just helps in finding 'neighbourhoods' in your notes. Vgl [[Warning, Tacit Assumptions May Derail PKM Conversations]] wrt upfront cats or not.
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Kein übertriebener Aufwand:
make it easy, don't go overboard. Good advice in current pkm discussions too
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Templates
everything in Anytype is an object, vgl Mediamatic's 'things' in Thing CMS.
You can template objects. Something you can also do in a markdown / Obsidian setting. - [ ] check of ik meer object gerichte templates wil/kan hanteren dan nu (boek, project). #pkm #30mins
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Anytype is an offline first note taking / database tool for both personal and group use.
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discuss, organize, remember
Anytype has a collaborative mode.
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Een LLS is de sleutel tot informatieliquiditeit
Dit vergt echt voorbeelden die voor Martijn betekenisvol zijn. Nu staan er alleen metaforen voor hoe het voor hem voelt. Die emotie en energie zie ik ook bij hem, maar niet het concrete voorbeeld.
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Het verschil zit in de ontologie. In een Zettelkasten is het handmatig verbinden zelf het denkwerk. In ThetaOS zit het denkwerk in de ontologie: jaren nadenken over hoe je entiteiten beschrijft. Nu hoef ik alleen dingen te benoemen en de verbindingen ontstaan vanzelf, omdat het systeem weet wat een persoon is, wat een locatie is, hoe ze zich tot elkaar verhouden.Buffon zou zeggen dat relaties betekenis definiëren. Briet zou daaraan toevoegen dat zonder context geen bewijs bestaat. Een LLS maakt beide inzichten mogelijk dankzij technologie.
Dit is de crux lijkt me. Een voorbeeld zou helpen, want was ook tijdens de sessie niet helder. Als je weet hoe een locatie, persoon, event of wat ook in je data is gerepresenteerd, dan kun je ze als pivots inzetten en in combinatie met elkaar plaatsen. Via een persoon zien waar je die zoal hebt ontmoet, via een plaat andersom etc. Dat web is interessant en voelt fascinerend no doubt, maar het is pas wat als je het kunt toepassen. Die toepassing vergt illustratie
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Een LLS doet iets anders. Een Foursquare check-in die op zichzelf nutteloos is, wordt betekenisvol naast een transactie, een persoon, een datum. Een banktransactie die saaie boekhouding lijkt, wordt bewijs dat je ergens was, iets deed, met iemand. De data verrijkt elkaar.
Dit is precies de [[Social software werkt in driehoeken 20060506070412]] invalshoek.
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Niet mensen die met locaties verbinden die met transacties verbinden die met projecten verbinden.
Dit is het zelf zichtbaar maken, en navigeren, van [[Social software werkt in driehoeken 20060506070412]] met de metadata telkens als pivots. Zie ook [[Tags are valuable as pivots 20070815104800]] en momenten evenzo, [[Tijd is pivot in terughalen 20220814150814]]. Wat de originele social software voor het media werden ook deed. Ik snap waar Martijn hier op doelt. Echter jezelf bent de belangrijkste pivot hierin, dus voor discovery is dat wellicht minder relevant.
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Je moet actief werken: fleeting notes verwerken tot permanent notes, verbindingen handmatig leggen, dagelijks je systeem onderhouden.
ja, dat lijkt mij de eufrictie. Ik moet namelijk weten wat ik er in stop. Een verbinding is niet een feit, maar een inzicht en een emergente kennis. Om het mijn kennis te laten zijn, moet het mijn verbinding zijn.
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PKM focust op ideeën, niet op leven. Op gedachten, niet op gebeurtenissen. J
mij te smal, in het webinar ook bewust gemeld dat ik het daar alleen over het kennis stuk had, niet over het doen stuk dat er wel bij hoort.
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Luhmann bouwde een systeem dat verbindingen genereert. David beschreef een systeem dat informatie opslaat en terugvindt. Beiden essentieel, maar puzzelstukken, niet de oplossing waar ik naar zocht.
In mijn PKM systeem is sinds jaar en dag de kenniskant (genetwerkte notes) met de doe kant (GTD en 12WeekYears) verbonden. Ook omdat werk-outputs gevoed zijn met kennis, en dingen doen kennis oplevert. Nadenken levert taken op en kennis, doen levert vragen op en kennis, kennis levert handelingskansen en antwoorden.
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Briet werkte institutioneel. Haar vraag was hoe bibliotheken en documentatiecentra toegang tot bewijs moesten organiseren. Niet hoe een individu zijn eigen leven en kennis kon ordenen.
Suzanne Briet was a librarian, working inside institutions, so how does her thinking play out in pkm, in individual / group learning and knowledge organisation?
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PKM gaat over ideeën en kennis. Ik beweeg ook mensen. Ik organiseer projecten, bouw gemeenschappen, verbind organisaties. Daarvoor heb ik iets nodig dat mijn hele werkelijkheid verbindt: mensen, locaties, gebeurtenissen, transacties, kansen, ideeën en projecten.
Key statement. PKM is about ideas and knowledge (at least to himself, my PKM combines that with practice) "I need something that combines my entire personal reality" Ppl, locations, events, transactions, opportunities, ideas, projects etc.
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Life Lens System. Het is mijn implementatie: 149 tabellen, vijftigduizend records, vijf iPhone-apps, twintig jaar nadenken over ontologie. Gebouwd op mijn manier, voor mijn manier van werken.
Rightfully underscores it is a fully personal system, and there's a whole bunch of other possibilities. Metrics: 149 tables, some 50k records. Has 5 iphone companion apps (finance, public transport being 2 I remember), and his personal ontology. - [ ] outline what I know my personal ontology is (more location bound than marked up as such I suspect). #pkm #30mins
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zettelkasten.de zettelkasten.de
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Your research interest should be genuine. It’s a mistake to choose something you think is “safe” to fail at. It may seem rational to experiment with something where failure has no serious consequences (e.g., having to start over). But this only leads to a lack of motivation to build the intensity and seriousness needed for thorough work. If the content of your Zettelkasten isn’t important to you and only serves to learn the Zettelkasten method, you’ll quickly become superficial and sloppy with the content. The Zettelkasten method requires serious engagement with the content – it cannot be learned with dummy content.
Bad advice. Safe to fail probes are not 'unserious', bc of aiming to limit the downside should they fail. The point is having the probe to explore 'cheaply' within the actual context of work. First part, the interest should be genuine, is completely true. It does not mean you can't do risk containment though. Probes are real and safe simultaneously. [[Probe proberend handelen 20201111162752]]
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If you’re constantly just making notes without structure
Not having an upfront determined structure, is not the same as 'making notes without structure'. Structure is emergent and earned working with the notes (linking, grouping, adding to an index / MoC etc.)
Also: not all structure needs to be in your note taking system. Many of my structures are in my own head. I know how I phrase things, and do things, I'm pretty predictable to myself. That is a structure to work with.
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I don’t see obsidian as my second brain, I see it as my second subconscious.”
I think the Second Brain metaphor is getting to the point of creating damage, not promise.
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just better to offload them somewhere in one place
Offloading is as old as Cro Magnon, pkm for the ages. [[Increasing Brain Capacity by Offloading to the Environment 20040615133233]]
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a decent use case for some kind of personal LLM
yes, vgl [[Communicating with Slip Boxes by Niklas Luhmann]] as convo partner. Using a local LLM makes total sense to me.
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the best thing to do is just write the note. It’s a bit like throwing the text into a big bucket, and that’s okay.
That's all there is to it indeed. Jot a note, perhaps add a link / choose a single physical location.
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Odd piece, where Ben Werdmüller says he is a bad note taker, and then describes what is actually ok note taking. Seems assumptions get in the way vgl https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2025/11/warning-tacit-assumptions-may-derail-pkm-conversations/
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www.ernestchiang.com www.ernestchiang.com
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Luhmann’s card structure:Front: Complete bibliographic information (author, title, publication year, etc.)Back: Page index = “Page x has this concept, page y has that argument”
States that Luhmann's bibliographic cards had his own indexing on the back. Vgl with my own immediate annotations I keep in a book note.
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digitallyliterate.net digitallyliterate.net
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Publishing is Pausing: You push a rough idea out to pause your thinking and invite external input.
Like the phrase. Vgl [[Kunst-artefact is (tussen)uitkomst proces 20140505070232]] any artefact is a (intermediate) output of ongoing process. Vgl [[Artefacten uit kennis met methoden 20220215202011]], artefacts brought forth from K through methods.
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What Is a Federated Garden? A federated digital garden is a personal knowledge space that: Starts private (your vault, your chaos, your unfinished thoughts) Grows selectively public (some notes bloom into garden pages) Connects across platforms (one source → many destinations) Links bidirectionally (gardens can discover and reference each other) Key principles: Gradual disclosure: Not everything needs to be public—choose what to share Version multiplicity: A note can exist as a draft, a garden page, a newsletter piece, and a toot Decentralized ownership: You control the source, not a platform Interoperability: Uses open standards (Markdown, RSS, ActivityPub, HTML)
The page confuses tools and content imo, but this is a workable list of attributes. 'Grows selectively public' is the key imo. #openvraag #webbeheer What can I do to improve the note to webpage pipeline I have but seldom use?
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My goal in this is to treat knowledge as a living, collaborative process, not a series of finished articles.
yes, but 'finished article' never was K. Artefacts may be carriers.
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actsofvolition.com actsofvolition.com
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Resumability is not a word, but it’s an important concept to me. When I say Resumability, I’m talking about the ability to quickly interrupt and later resume a task.
[[Steven Garrity]] coining 'resumability' , where a device just continues on where you were previously. Mentions e-readers as such devices (and paper books with a bookmark), a smartphone and apps like Slack. The latter is not true I think, it scrolls fwd to newest.
Thinking about resumability in terms of notes / pkm. Obsidian is always where I was previously e.g. A type of ratchet for task execution.
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ruk.ca ruk.ca
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For example, you may need a working shop or a working painting studio. You may need a working music studio. Or a computer room where you can write something. It’s crucial to have a setup, so that, at any given moment, when you get an idea, you have the place and the tools to make it happen.
Quote David Lynch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_the_Big_Fish continued.
Mentions examples of set-ups for different activities. Vgl spaces on laptop. Vgl my home office vs attic space etc.
Vgl [[%index coachingboekje]] wrt set-ups I need/want/woud like to have or list of set-ups currently available to me.
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If you don’t have a setup, there are many times when you get the inspiration, the idea, but you have no tools, no place to put it together. And the idea just sits there and festers. Over time, it will go away. You didn’t fulfill it—and that’s just a heartache.
Quote David Lynch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_the_Big_Fish continued.
Not having a set-up ready when an idea hits means no agency. Mentions festering a type of powerlessness, vgl [[%I Networked Agency]] wrt methods and tools for various things. Also vgl making note of any idea in 3Ideeenkweekkas
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pkm.jarche.ca pkm.jarche.ca
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Image by [[Harold Jarche]] plotting 14 modes of learning from [[You Can Do Anything by James Mangan]] 1936 self-help book on his Seek / Sense / Share
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teachinginhighered.com teachinginhighered.com
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Jarche shares 14 ways to acquire knowledge from the quintessential PKM practicer, Maria Popova at The Marginalian, and her review _You Can Do Anything_ by James Mangan, written in 1936. He then categorizes the methods in terms of how they align with PKM in this graphic from Jarche:
Maria Popova https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Popova http://themarginalian.org/
[[You Can Do Anything by James Mangan]] 1936 review: 14 ways to acquire K. https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/04/22/14-ways-to-acquire-knowledge-james-mangan-1936/ "prolific self-help guru and famous eccentric" https://archive.org/details/bwb_W8-ANG-369/ can be borrowed.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Jorge Arango talks about his writing process. He actually co-authored a book on Information Architecture in 2015. This vid more about his latest. uses lots of paper notebooks Mentions 3 (obvious) phases in his non-fiction writing research structuring writing Says all three req diff tools. (he uses Obsidian f research)
Stage 1 research, vague idea about what topic, (s paper notebooks, index/sequence them) His book duly noted is on this phase.
Stage 2 structuring. mistake to go directly to writing. (vgl [[A System for Writing by Bob Doto]] ) Mentions author Robert Caro who had book structure on his wall story book like, vgl what I do when writing reports w wall of post its for structure. Limitation is size of wall. But physcial movement helpt. He does this type of wall in [[Tinderbox]] !!!! canvas, with the sticky notes having metadata. His chapter and heading structure emerges from it! Prevents getting lost in the details. Shows him what is missing too (looping back to research phase sometimes). It's not writing but getting a sense of the narrative flow of the entire thing. Seems like outlining of talks, but a book is bigger and thus the outlining is more filled out with links to material
What question would a reader have entering chapter 2 after reading chapter 1, and go from there. Has opening story/anecdote for each chapter. Mwah. Uses the story board view like how the periodic table suggested the existence of atoms that had not been discovered yet. Dmitri Mendleev.
Stage 3 writing After structuring the writing tools come into play. He used Scrivener, avoiding having a monolithic text. Now Ulysses, in markdown. Uses word count targets in these tools for sections/chapters
set up supportive environments for each pahse structure first but keep flexible, don't make it a linear process, but structure ulnocks the writing swith modalities - walking, free form in [[Tinderbox]] or another tool, to avoid getting stuck.
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silverbullet.md silverbullet.md
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[[Links]] like a wiki (except they are [[Linked Mentions|bi-directional]]).
The bidirectional takes the form of linked mentions underneath a linked to note. That's common even in wiki I think these days. Any tools out there that link closer to like Ted Nelson proposed? Within a pkm tool bidirectional linking into a specific spot in a note should be somehow doable. Transclusion is a step further even, but if I can link to a paragraph, that paragraph should be able to link to where it is cited, no? In Obsidian the ^ link is still one way, while origin and source are known for it to work (the reference number)
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Silverbullet, making the rounds in #pkm tooling circles last few days. Works on file system, but that needs to be on a web server. Client is a progressive web app. Browser loads all of it, and then it's local on device and can work offline.
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- Oct 2025
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ponderingpen.substack.com ponderingpen.substack.com
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The Second Brain Scam<br /> by [[Corey Carvalho]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T13:44:26
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- Aug 2025
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writingslowly.com writingslowly.com
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Amazon silo only. Shu Har Ri (imitate, experiment, go beyond) seems a skill oriented learning approach.
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www.openculture.com www.openculture.com
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E referred me to this as a fellow 'list maker' example. My current list is about 1600, mostly because I lost a 2k delicious library list. Not all read though. [[Boekenlijst is bibliotheek 20210507092034]] #blogdit
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- Jul 2025
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tfthacker.com tfthacker.com
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A brief description of Obsidian Bases I have created a simple one as overview of my ongoing projects in my company. Works fast on the fly, but not sure there's a huge diff with previous dataview queries.
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Privacy: All data you create stays entirely on your own device.Data Portability: Your data is always yours. Cotoami saves everything in a standard SQLite database file, so you can access, read, or edit your notes using any tool that works with SQLite — even without Cotoami itself. Future versions of Cotoami will continue to support your existing data.Offline Availability: Cotoami does not rely on any online services — you can use it completely offline.All-in-One: No additional runtimes or dependencies are required. You can use Cotoami right after downloading it, and it’s designed to remain usable for as long as possible.
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- Jun 2025
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nl.wikipedia.org nl.wikipedia.org
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Koppermaandag ken ik van de Groningse kunstkring De Ploeg waar E's oudoom ze ook maakte (vgl https://www.kunstbehoudgroningen.nl/collectie/82 ). Oorspronkelijk een feestdag van alle gilden , later alleen nog in de grafische sector. #idee iets voor [[% Practice Praktijk OP]] op #2026/01/12
nav dat ik bij [[Roy Scholten]] in het Grafisch Atelier Hilversum koppermaandagprenten tegenkwam. #2025/06/07 en ze al eerder daar had gezien.
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- Apr 2025
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www.jacksonsart.com www.jacksonsart.com
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250428054937/https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2019/11/27/writing-artist-bio-statement/ Via [[Roy Scholten]] https://bildung.royscholten.nl/nl/posts/2025/art-for-a-living-vonk/ Makes me wonder about using it for artisans, not artists, and by extension for knowledge-artisans. As it puts the creative acts of K-work more central. Vgl [[Convening call 20230908135351]] en [[Kenniswerk is ambacht 20040924200250]]
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- Mar 2025
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malikalimoekhamedov.substack.com malikalimoekhamedov.substack.com
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European PKM Summit 2025 (Part 2) by [[Malik Alimoekhamedov]]
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www.xanadu.com.au www.xanadu.com.au
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The point has been not to simplify the world of ideas and connection, or force others to simplify (as today's software and hypermedia do); the point has been to represent the world of ideas correctly and clearly, which is much harder-- replacing not just paper media, but conventional computer files and hierarchy, with finer-grained and wholly different families of structure.
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tana.inc tana.inc
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beepb00p.xyz beepb00p.xyz
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Web browser history is a rich source of potentially useful information. Just think about it: it's zero effort lifelogging.
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danielwirtz danielwirtz
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Daniel Wirtz writes about his note making, 'writing at the speed of thought', based off his interstitial journaliing as day log, w links/tags for finding things back similar to my mo, types/actions added. Objects used for things w more permanence, like I split off notes from my day log too. All that doesn't say 'at the speed of thought' to me however.
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writing.bobdoto.computer writing.bobdoto.computer
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Working with the Collaborative Network of Ideas
For me the purpose of a collab zk would need to be aligned to what drives the collaborators. E.g. how I tie pkm to individual professional activism and autonomy, and extended/aggregated to teamkm it drives the core value of constructive activism of my company, and how we use [[Systems convening denken Wenger Trayner 20230914131102]] to translate that into interventions and desirable client projects. Vgl [[PKM systems convening activisme relatie 20241123085857]] expressing that connection.
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- Nov 2024
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www.experimental-history.com www.experimental-history.com
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from 2024/01 by Adam Mastroianni
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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A knower does not stand apart from the universe, but participates personally within it. Our intellectual skills are driven by passionate commitments that motivate discovery and validation. According to Polanyi, a great scientist not only identifies patterns, but also significant questions likely to lead to a successful resolution. Innovators risk their reputation by committing to a hypothesis.
Knower / observer not separate from the universe, not outside the system boundary Vgl [[Systems convening landscape als macroscope 20230906115130]] where the convener is integral part of it too, not an external change agent.
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“ e mind is for having ideas,not holding them.”7 Taken from David Allen’s seminal text on productivity,Getting ings Done, this idea, above all others, binds lawyers to Luddites,helping thousands who struggle to put ideas into action.
I really don't like this David Allen quote which is often seen in these spaces. It's usually used by people who haven't spent any time training their memory.
I'll give BD the benefit of the doubt that the entirety of this PKM paragraph is sidelining the "PKM scene" altogether.
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[[Peter Rukavina]] on how his blog is something others come across and make connections. Commented that [[Hoe emergence tot stand komt 20040513173612]] is from longer traces. My PKM system is leaving those traces for me, my blog for me and others. My blog is the longest, due to it being 22+ yrs old, trace I'm leaving publicly for others to connect around.
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tracydurnell.com tracydurnell.com
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Tracy Durnell on the personal affordances of keeping a blog. Haven't read just glanced, but usually she makes interesting points, marked to read -[ ] Read this wrt #pkm #15mins
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forum.obsidian.md forum.obsidian.md
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adding to what clemp wrote. Structure or categorisation is earned imo and emergent from working with my material. Any categorisation, indexing, tagging also is personal imo meaning no external standard as to how things should be organised applies in any way. Structures are personal tools and can be temporary. Which ones do you need and can add to over time while your interacting with your material? That way there’s a ratchet effect, but no need to structure everything as a separate task. I start everything I do with a search in my stuff. I add to the things I find and seem relevant at that time as tags the things I was searching for. If I found a piece about gardening while searching for things about health, I will add that health relation as tag. Or as link to another note. This lengthens the traces of my work with my material, and longer traces I’m more likely to cross. Over time I will see the stuff emerge that is most relevant to me over time. The start for me is when I save something external I always add the following 2 things: the reason I wanted to save it, what made me interested, in my own words (might include some tags). And always a link to something already in my notes that I associate it with. For me the switch in mindset is that there is no intrinsic information contained in anything I keep, all meaning is in my own eyes when I use it later. Any structuring reflects that, and I work form the assumption there are no objective descriptors I must use as categories or tags etc. Rather than organize/structure during note taking, I organize/structure during note using. With my initial remark and internal link as curation to help me on my way.
my comment, in response to someone getting lost in up front organising of notes, and ending up in a 'mess'. Embrace the mess, lengthen traces to stumble upon, earn structure (they're a personal tool not an outside standard or demand). Organise during note usage rather than during note taking, except for curation when saving something external with a remark (tags sometimes) and an internal link.
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- Sep 2024
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personal knowledge management
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pkmsummit.com pkmsummit.com
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medium.com medium.com
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This method allows individuals to manage and interlink their information more effectively by creating interconnected nodes, known as knowledge graphs.
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www.baldurbjarnason.com www.baldurbjarnason.com
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glorious rant by Baldur Bjarnason, but not much surprisal here. As with other stuff, albeit agile scrum, getting things done, and any of the pitched perfect ways to make notes, whenever the process becomes the thing rather than a tool in the hand of an knowledge artisan stuff is useless and boring.
It's about output, not in units or volume, but in quality. Needing to know why your are making these notes, and weaving your network of meaning.
The people who do things with their system usually don't talk about it much. I've done it on occasion and am happy to share and show how/why I do things, but never with the intention to convince another to do the same or similar.
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www.rachelwu.com www.rachelwu.comLWtL V61
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http://www.rachelwu.com/Wu_2019.pdf
proposes ...adaptation is relevant for all age groups because the environment is dynamic, suggesting that learning what to learn is a problem relevant across the lifespan
reviews new research demonstrating the importance and ways of learning what to learn across the lifespan, from objects to real-world skills 2018/2019pub
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One key motivation for Latticework was how wonderful it feels to stumble upon a past moment of shining clarity, to point and revel. We want to be able to carry those moments with us, to see them all at once when we’re lost, and to use them as landmarks as we navigate our messy notebooks. We’ve used Latticework to do this in small ways so far, and we’re excited to see how our upcoming projects might feel different with its extra affordances.
this paragraph reads like making commonplacing navigable in a new way. Also turns 'snippets' into potenital entry points without them being separate notes, and pivots like tags. Note the clear spatial overtones (landmarks, being lost, navigate, ways, stumble upon, point).
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We had a strong personal motivation for this project: we often find ourselves stuck in our own creative work. Latticework’s links might make you think of citations and primary sources—tools for finding the truth in a rigorous research process. But our work on Latticework was mostly driven by the problems of getting emotionally stuck, of feeling disconnected from our framing of the project or our work on it.
Again the important distinction, here in the context which itch Latticework scratches, between 'evidence' and 'kindle' perspectives. The latter is an emotional thing, where knowledge is not an external thing, but a internal network of meaning.
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Adjustable snippet ranges. After working with a snippet link, some test users found that they wanted to shift its endpoints, to include more context or to tighten its focus. Latticework doesn’t currently allow this, but one could create an interaction which modified its current snippet links accordingly
adjustable snippet ranges, letting your emergent insight impact your original highlighting/annotation sounds like a very interesting idea. Not because you're pinpointing the info at source more accurately, but because the emergent purpose of your sensemaking reflects back on your source material. It shifts the exact point where your Surprisal originates around.
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Giving a cluster a name can impose formality prematurely, adding friction to the process.
Naming clusters can be incorporated into sensemaking efforts though, when not used as result but as intermediate step. As in [[2 step archetype extraction 20121130152904]]
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Alongside disorientation, working memory overload is one of the biggest problems when distilling these large unstructured documents. We believe that’s why people in these situations so often try to collect everything important into once place: that way, everything can be viewed at once, and it’s possible to notice connections and themes without relying on working memory. Unfortunately, as snippets accumulate, the working document itself can become quite long—leaving you stuck scrolling around, trying to remember where everything is.
The processing document can get as unwieldy as the source material for which it is a solution. Latticework lets you collapse stuff therefore.
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While you’re gathering these snippets, you may also want to capture observations about them. Each workflow has a natural way to handle this. If you’re reading a source document with a highlighter, you can write comments in the margins. If you’re copying snippets into a working document, you can type observations alongside them. As with highlighting and copying, Latticework makes these operations interchangeable.
adding small observations to either the foraging or sensemaking side of things is reflected in the other. Another bi-directionality. Nifty, also because this is exactly what happened to me when I tried out an early version with Matt/Andy watching. Working with material leads to new thoughts/observations which I threw in for later follow-up/expansion. It allows me to capture my conversation with a text both as annotation at source, and as refinement in the working doc.
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You’ll get the same result no matter which direction you go—a highlight in the source document and a snippet link in the working document. Conceptually, highlighting doesn’t actually modify the source document. Highlights are a dynamic style applied to all the snippets linked in your working document. So if you delete a snippet link, the corresponding highlight will disappear, too
Bi-directionality is a key feature in Latticework, which is great. At the same time, on the source end it is also ephemeral. If your remove a linked snippet from the sensemaking document, the highlight, which is just a styling element, gets removed from the source. The source is not modified to produce the highlight. (Any permanent link to source should be made consciously, which is right) Bidirectionality, other than linking seems to me a key affordance in #pkm, something that not now exists in either my annotations / reading / processing flows. #openvraag: where in my workflows would bidirectional trace leaving be useful.
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this process isn’t linear. It’s often convenient to do a bit of preliminary sensemaking in the midst of foraging; conversely, observations you uncover during sensemaking will often lead to another round of foraging, and so on, in a loop.
Making sense of material is not a linear process of ever more refinement, as e.g. Tiago Forte suggests with [[Progressive summarising 20200922080651]]. Siu/Matischak embrace the non-linear, recognising you go from 'foraging' (their term, great, K-garden style) to annotating, rearranging, noting an idea, back to foraging, back to rearranging etc. This is a key thing imo.
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This is the 'final' result of [[Matthew Siu]] [[Andy Matischak]] research into an Obsidian plugin for making sense of several sources into one, emerging an outline. I tested an earlier beta on #2024/02/1 [[Andy Matthew Obsidian plugin]] https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2024/02/matthew-and-andy-watched-me-test-the-obsidian-reference-plugin/ I stopped using it after a few weeks due to clashes with other plugins I could not pin down. At first glance this is a good description of the process and intended purpose. Re-installed this version of the plugin.
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newrepublic.com newrepublic.com
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via Chris Aldrich. Ann Blair of [[Information edited by Ann Blair]]
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hyperphor.com hyperphor.com
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240714180109/https://hyperphor.com/ammdi/Agency-Made-Me-Do-It
Mike Travers site is a wiki more than a blog but not quite a wiki either. It's Logseq based and tied to a self-rolled publishing tool. Also uses Zotero in their stack. Seems he transformed his blog into this garden in Oct 2021.
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boffosocko.com boffosocko.com
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I read an early draft in April and know it’s excellent. If knowledge management, zettelkasten, or writing are of interest to you, this is one of the best books on these topics. If you’re just getting into these areas, it’s required reading and will advance your practice more quickly than any four other books you’ll find.
[[Chris Aldrich]] is enthousiast over [[A System for Writing by Bob Doto]] bij publicatie want hij las een preprint versie.
Quick glance at Amazon shows Doto adds in illustrations of his processes, might be interesting.
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longnow.org longnow.org
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When I sit down to begin things, I just marinate in my own stew for a while. It'll be a couple of weeks and my task at that time is to go through those notes of all those things that caught my eye at some point. As you spend time with them, you start to gather things together and you start to see themes emerge or clumps. There are characters in here that are three different notes that sort of found each other and I put them together
His writing process is for several weeks to go through notes, just looking through them, let it mingle in his head. Then put things together and look for emergent clusters / topics.
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I have a very diligent and disciplined note-taking practice. I have many other weaknesses as a writer, but I think one of my Olympic-caliber strengths is being disciplined about capturing interesting thoughts and ideas I come across. It's a mix of little bits of science stories that I encounter, things I overhear people saying, and things that occur to me when I’m doing something else that I dictate into a voice note and send it. I capture all that stuff and I collect it all into one big stew pot. It’s a really productive process.
Sloan says he has a very 'disciplined' note taking process. But continues he actually means he is always capturing things, thoughts, stories, overheard conversations. Uses voice dictation.
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- Jun 2024
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mcgeesmusings.net mcgeesmusings.net
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Fellow KM blogger from back in the day [[Jim McGee]] (he blogs since Oct 2001) articulates in a slightly different way something that is key ot my perspective on org KM too: PKM is the foundation for org KM. I picked that up from Sveiby's 1997 book. n:: Jim phrases it here as K sharing doesn't happen between people when they have nothing to share, bc they don't do PKM. Then any sharing is a burden as it requires formulation first. I share stuff with colleagues daily, because it is a benefit to share things I already formulated.
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- May 2024
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karl-voit.at karl-voit.at
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240503124032/https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/29/How-to-Use-Tags/
Long post on 'how to' tag with a set of rules. Not a word on why to tag as a personal practice. Retrieval is key, and not just retrieval but retrieval in contexts. Not merely descriptive but mostly associative. That there is e.g. a #longtail of tags only used once is also a piece of information itself. E.g. when finding the starting point for a new branch of exploration. I find that [[Tags are valuable as pivots 20070815104800]]. The mostly used tags (unavoidable if you use a limited set as suggested in rule 2) become useless because they no longer demarcate a manageble chunck of material.
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- Apr 2024
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theopolisinstitute.com theopolisinstitute.com
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William Nestle’s Vom Mythos zum Logos (1940) is the classical statement of this reading. On the opening page, Nestle claims mythos and logos are “the two poles between which man’s mental life oscillates. Mythic imagination and logical thought are opposites,” the former being “imagistic and involuntary,” rooted in the unconscious, while the latter is “conceptual and intentional, and analyzes and synthesizes by means of consciousness” (quoted in Glenn Most, “From Logos to Mythos,” in From Myth to Reason?, 27).
Dichotomy of "mythic imagination" rooted in the unconscious versus "logical thought" rooted in the conscious
Also, see this as a reading of "chaos versus order". See, for example, Apollonian and Dionysian theory or Confucius order and Lao Tzu chaos (with respect to wu-wei). In PKM, this would correlate to the gardener vs architect archetypes.
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martijnaslander.nl martijnaslander.nl
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Voorbij het dogma van het document
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www.it-academieoverheid.nl www.it-academieoverheid.nl
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Het webinar van RADIO op 27-2 over mijn #pkm systeem. Video bij https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2024/03/word-pkm-kampioen-voor-jezelf/ en [[PKM RADIO slides]]
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educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com
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Five types of wayfinding behaviors exist in PSKNThis study identified five types of wayfinding behaviors in PSKN for learners: creating nodes, finding important nodes and forming cognitive maps, connecting important nodes, and finding and filtering information. Our findings verified the diversity of wayfinding in the PSKN. Previous studies have focused on wayfinding difficulties, such as information evaluation (Kammerer et al., 2013; Kiili et al., 2020), resource disorientation (Wang et al., 2022) and technical difficulties (Kop, 2011; Li et al., 2016). However, few studies have examined technological factors influence the ways learners access resources in connectivist learning, such as the PSKN. Four wayfinding behaviors were defined in this study based on a connection-forming model (AlDahdouh, 2018). We further defined a new wayfinding behavior, creating nodes, in the PSKN, with three types of creating behavior: learning communities, knowledge nodes, and course knowledge bases. Consistent with previous studies, the results demonstrated that generating knowledge nodes facilitated learners acting as teachers or content producers (Griesbaum, 2014), contributing to more connections (Duan et al., 2019; Yu et al., 2019).Furthermore, we revealed creation of behavior-supported indirect wayfinding for individuals, through which learners can navigate the network and identify diversity nodes effectively (Kizito, 2016). Our results indicated that all learners navigated the PSKN and oriented additional nodes. Compared with previous studies, this study found that creating nodes was an essential wayfinding feature in the PSKN. This may be because, with the increase in network connectivity, resource navigation moved from relying on pre-existing nodes to wayfinding by creating nodes to identify more important nodes and make connections. This reflects a change in the role of learners during the wayfinding process, that is, a gradual move from finding to creating nodes. This also means that indirect wayfinding was a crucial wayfinding feature, and creating nodes was a critical behavior in the PSKN. Moreover, as the connection proceeds, the learner becomes like a teacher, and creating nodes becomes a critical wayfinding behavior in connectivist learning.
Five types of wayfinding in PSKN: 1) node creation 2) finding key notes, 3) forming mental maps 4) making a connection between nodes deemed important 5) finding/filtering information. Note how these 5 are also, in a different way perhpas, core elements of my [[PKM Personal Knowledge Management 20041004192620]] First mentioned, the creation of nodes is a novel type defined by this study. Three types of creation behaviour are involved: learning communities, knowledge nodes, and course knowledge bases. These there are common in pkm circles too, vgl Discord servers some have started, or DF platform, published notes and vids e.g.
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differences in wayfinding behavioral patterns between high- and low-performing learners." Most interesting to me is the finding that "creating nodes was an essential wayfinding feature in the PSKN." The best way to make connections is to contribute. "As the connection proceeds, the learner becomes like a teacher, and creating nodes becomes a critical wayfinding behavior in connectivist learning."
Om je te oriënteren in een persoonlijk social kennisnetwerk is het creëren van nodes van groot belang. Maw je moet actief het sociale kennisnetwerk mede vlechten. Netwerkleren betekent connecties maken.
Vgl [[Wie deelt bestaat 20130131133926]] only nodes that share (i.e. contribute) exist in the general perception of the network. Wrt [[Netwerkleren Connectivism 20100421081941]]
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read Thanks to what @zsviczian@pkm.social … – Interdependent Thoughts by [[by Ton Zijlstra]]
This reminds me that I ought to go back and look at Excalidraw's state-of-the-art again. It's been too long.
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- Mar 2024
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engineeringideas.substack.com engineeringideas.substack.com
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a few interesting suggestions, but based on shaky assumptions and practices I think, and then jumping to (over)engineering an alternative system/tool, rather than updating one's (understanding of) tiny methods. The reference frames are useful notion I suspect, but as emergent structure. It seems as if author is thinking the actual work involved in writing / placing / linking is a bug rather than a feature.
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publish.obsidian.md publish.obsidian.md
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PKM summit 2024
Marieke van der Vliet haar verslag van de PKM Summit 2024
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start.digitalfitness.com start.digitalfitness.com
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Hi Muhammed, Thank you so much for the workshop friday. It was Nice to hear others geek out and talk about the Zettelkasten principle and with interactive exercises it was wonderful. I have done my PhD with inspiration in Luhmann’s system for knowledge creation so I am quite familiar with it. Still I have a question for you that I am sad I didn’t get around to discuss with you in person at the summit. Instead I thought I could ask it here and hope you would still see it. Are you doing your Zettelkasten in obsidian - and if so why do you still number them? Best Agnes
/reply at Digital Fitness in response to Agnes Lausen about folgezettel
Hey Agnes, thanks a lot for attending. I rlly loved the energy and loved doing the workshop. As to your question, yes I do use obsidian for my zettelkasten. As to the numbering, it gives me a few benefits. Firstly, it forces me to make a link. If I am going to import a new note, I will have to link the note to another note, because I have to give an ID (number). This prevents orphan notes. And, it gives me a visual sense of what is going on in my zettelkasten. I can see at a glance if a section has more notes than others (my section 4, for example, has more notes.) Both the ID and the statement title, for me, gives me so much context just seeing the title without looking at the contents.
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Daarbovenop nog een ander waardevol ding, waarvoor ik de woorden nog niet precies van vinden. Een vorm van bewustzijn over tijd en ruimte, en de loop der dingen in mijn leven daarin. Het klinkt vast vaag, maar dagelijks moeiteloos kunnen zien waar je vandaag de afgelopen 20 jaar mee bezig was doet iets met een mens, en op een goede manier.
Dit doet me denken aan dat PKM kan functioneren als een persoonlijke geschiedenis van jezelf.
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github.com github.com
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zapier alternative to integrate apps
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pkmsummit.com pkmsummit.com
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jarche.com jarche.com
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read [[Harold Jarche]] in dead blog walking at 20
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auth.monday.com auth.monday.com
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in select what you'd like to focus on has: - academic research - resource management - task management - curriculum & syllabus management** - portfolio management - project management
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Zenkit Suite
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also has: Zen Hypernotes (knowledge, notes & Wiki)* interesting ZenProjects zenForms (forms & surveys) ZenChat Base (all-in-one collaboration platform)
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alper.nl alper.nl
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This overview of Alper's Obsidian day template contains some useful items to mimick. Should also blog my own template as it contains some tweaks that help in different ways around associating content with each other. - [ ] lees dit en kijk wat ik er van in eigen daily log template zet.
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www.cygnoir.net www.cygnoir.net
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240125180647/https://www.cygnoir.net/2024/01/20/how-i-pocket.html
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I’ve stopped using the phrase "productivity systems" because it implies that our most important work is that of production. Creation is much more important to me.
Nice, 'creativity system' in opposition to the productivity fetish that others express.
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boffosocko.com boffosocko.com
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Chris keeps surfacing nice examples of people using index card systems for pkm and learning. Here Martin Luther King jr.
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Chris provides a nice overview of who's who around notetaking. There are some names in there that I may add to my feeds. Also go through the reading list, with an eye on practices that may fit with my way of working. Perhaps one or two names are relevant for #pkmsummit too.
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forum.zettelkasten.de forum.zettelkasten.de
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A numbering/indexing system for notes in notebooks that is more granular than merely page numbers. I wonder how big his notebooks are (hundreds of pages, and multiple entries per page sounds like big folios)?
Mentions several notebooks, see [[The Notebook by Roland Allen]] with the Italian examples of using multiple for different stages.
How does he process them into his 'main' repository of notes? How might this connect to a practice of scanning pages from notebooks into Obsidian for further processing and indexing, as I've been doing?
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- Dec 2023
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www.historyofinformation.com www.historyofinformation.com
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https://web.archive.org/web/20231228181017/https://www.historyofinformation.com/index.php large resource on the history of information, presented in timelines. Useful for finding earliest examples of certain artefacts (not methods though)
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www.facebook.com www.facebook.com
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to just have an inexpensive depository for things which can be searched on (and I WOULD recommend MyMind for that)
PKM: MyMind
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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Evernote Vs UpNote
Useful thread overwhelmingly supporting leaving Evernote for Upnote. 討論串壓倒性支持從Evernote出走，奔向Upnote。
The video does an in-depth comparison of the two apps. 影片深入比較兩者功能。
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www.facebook.com www.facebook.com
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模仿 Notion 的工具（affine），走出自己的道路是把「Heptabase 的白板概念」加進去，挺酷的。而且有全中文化
Affine 免費版新增內容無上限，除了單一檔案上限10M，雲端儲存上限10GB，感覺很佛心，可以試用很久。
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fortelabs.com fortelabs.com
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Test-Driving a New Generation of Second Brain Apps: Obsidian, Tana, and Mem
I'm a bit surprised at the conclusion: Evernote still the best and can't be supplanted easily. Seriously?
But there are some naked truths about Tana and Mem (and Mem X). The Second Brain guy didn't mince words.
I think he is too harsh on Obsidian. You can't have your cake and eat it. If local-first philosophy is of utmost importance to you, you've got to learn where the vaults are stored locally. Duh!
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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Heptabase review
A heavy-weight in-depth look at Heptabase, comparing with other PKMs.
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markgrabe.substack.com markgrabe.substack.com
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Grabe, Mark. “Student and Professional Note-Taking.” Substack newsletter. Mark’s Substack (blog), November 10, 2023. https://markgrabe.substack.com/p/student-and-professional-note-taking?publication_id=1857743&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=77i35.
Educator Mark Grabe looks at some different forms of note taking with respect to learning compared lightly with note taking for productivity or knowledge management purposes.
Note taking for: - learning / sensemaking - personal knowledge management - productivity / projects - thesis creation/writing/other creative output (music, dance, etc.)
Not taken into account here is the diversity of cognitive abilities, extent of practice (those who've practiced at note taking for longer are likely to be better at it), or even neurodiversity, which becomes an additional layer (potentially noise) on top of the research methodologies.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux1GXpzXt0U
Yet another PKM Guru channel. A mixture of (he says) Tiago Forte (BASB, CODE), zettelkasten, and PKM.
Uses Craft, Canva, Figma, Spotify (for ambient focus).
He's actively creating/using some of the words and definitions of others, but also creating his own "system" definition. (hubs, etc.) He redefines Forte's C.O.D.E. to give it his own spin: Capture, Connect, Create Share.
He's got a subtle proselytizing Christian underlying message. Mentions Bible. Has hat with word "WRSHP". "Adding value to someone else's life" by sharing. Personal conversation is important to him (proselytizing). Speaking at his church about what "God has put in his heart."
Turning notes into "diamonds"
There's an outline of a system here, but he doesn't show actual practice, which is possibly the most important part, otherwise it may be unusable theory. To be able to do this system, I think, one would need to already be conversant in what is going on generally in the space or have Forte's system under control. By this point, what is Wheeler's real contribution other than a small example?
meh....
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www.strategicstructures.com www.strategicstructures.com
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It could be that suddenly, more people understood what Michael Polanyi realized back in the 1950
Also Sveiby on corporate KM starts out from professional's PKM, and tacit K is about half of what Nonaka's about.
Polyani as pdf in Zotero: zotero://select/library/items/FGEACIKL a 1964 edition of his 1958 text.
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surge in 2020-2022. This would not be the first such jump in the history of PKM tools. Another one occurred during the Renaissance.
This is an odd jump, ignoring the early digital era (1980s-1990s) which also saw many different tools from Apple cards to Brain, wikis and Tinderbox, Xanadu even before that.
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You don’t connect notes as the pinnacle achievement in dealing with knowledge (or at least should not, because it is an insult to your potential). You should go way deeper. To make sure that you go as deep as you can, you should try to actually create something. Create (knowledge) tools you want to use. If you process a book, an article or whatever, ask yourself what tools you (or perhaps your clients) need. Then you marry the two concepts, Depth of Processing and Value Creation, properly. The depth is the necessary condition to create something valuable. You notice if you hit the threshold of proper depth of processing when you have created something of value.
List/explore this in [[Maak machientjes in je PKM 20230304092406]]
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- Aug 2023
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koneksa-mondo.nl koneksa-mondo.nl
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Marco over Tiago's boek. Vind de vele nieuwe acroniemen voor methoden en taktiekjes die al heel oud zijn onnodig, en mis het historisch besef bij Forte (en Milo et al). Vgl [[Transcript digitale fitheid Tiago Forte]]. en [[BASB Building a second brain 20200929164524]]
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Sortes Vergilianae: taking random quotes from Vergilius and interpret their meaning either as prediction or as advice. The latter as a trigger for self reflection makes it a #leeswijze #reading manner that is non-linear
Vgl. [[Skillful reading is generally non-linear 20210303154148]]
St. Antonius (of Egypt, 3rd century) is said to have read the bible this way (sortes sanctorum it's called if you use it for divination), and Augustinus followed that thus picking up Paul's letter to the Romans and getting converted in the 4th century.
Is this ripping up of the text into isolated paragraphs to access and read a text an early input into commonplace books and florilegia? As a gathering of such things?
Mentioned in [[Information edited by Ann Blair]] in lemma 'Readers' p730.
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press.princeton.edu press.princeton.edu
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[[Information edited by Ann Blair]] bought #2023/08/19 in Groningen at Godert Walter
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one.mikro2nd.net one.mikro2nd.net
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It should be trivially easy to create a new Activity, and it ought to be possible to create such a workspace even when you’re part-way into already doing the thing. This is a common, frequent need: While working on something (or playing games, reading news,…) I get an email/call from a contact wherein they ask me for some insight into how I might be able to help them. My context has switched, though my PC doesn’t know it yet. I send them an email, some links, documents and so on, some to-and-fro happens via several channels, and suddenly I find myself in the midst of a new Acivity that already has some history. I need a way to hotkey a new Project and say to it, “And include these existing artefacts, the links between them, and their history and provenance.”
One is usually not aware of a new project (as a set of activities) starting, only some time after you have started do you realise it is a project. Meaning that 'starting' a project in your (pkm) system, always includes a bit of existing history. Starting templates / sequences (like making folder structures etc) should incorporate that existing brief history.
I recognise this, but this description also seems to assume that a project starts in a sort-of vacuum without pre-existing context and notes, until you creat the first few steps before realising it is indeed a project. Having an established note making routine (day logs, etc whatever) means projects are emergent out of ongoing activity, out of an existing ratcheting effect. Vgl [[Vastklik notes als ratchet zonder terugval 20220302102702]] Meaning you can always point back to existing notes, tracing the evolution of something into a project. That can be covered by a few pointers/fields/tags in a new project's template.
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Nieuws kwam tot ons via een combinatie van kranten, bladen en radio of tv. Papieren media hadden het te doen met beperkte fysieke ruimte omdat papier geld kost, ook iets weegt en meer papier is ook nog duurder te vervoeren. Bij radio- en tv-zenders was het niet anders door beperkte tijd, een beperkt aantal kanalen en zeer hoge kosten. Dus een redactie maakte een beperkte selectie voor ons: een filter.Ook informatie-uitwisseling onderling ging per post en ook dat was bewerkelijk en bepaald niet gratis. Iets dergelijks gold eigenlijk voor alle vormen van informatie die tot ons kwam.En sinds een tijdje worden die filters minder belangrijk of ze verdwijnen compleet. Het zelf massaal verspreiden van (nep-)nieuws en andere informatie kost niets meer, dus iedereen kan iedereen onbeperkt bekogelen met extreme hoeveelheden informatie.In veel gevallen is er geen enkel filter meer op die toestroom van informatie. En al is dat filter er wel, dan moet je dat zelf maar zien in te stellen. Of, nog erger, het filter is er, maar functioneert niet in jouw belang en is daarmee onbetrouwbaar
info filters niet meer ingebouwd in het systeem; dat moeten we nu zelf zien te creëeren, of deze worden anders voor ons gemaakt (zie bijvoorbeeld algoritmes, enzo)
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- Jun 2023
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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37:30 Tech companies don't want you to take info into your own notes (see pkm can give agency)
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- May 2023
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Chatti notes that Connectivism misses some concepts, which are crucial for learning, such as reflection, learning from failures, error detection and correction, and inquiry. He introduces the Learning as a Network (LaaN) theory which builds upon connectivism, complexity theory, and double-loop learning. LaaN starts from the learner and views learning as the continuous creation of a personal knowledge network (PKN).[18]
Learning as a Network LaaN and Personal Knowledge Network PKN , do these labels give me anything new?
Mohamed Amine Chatti: The LaaN Theory. In: Personalization in Technology Enhanced Learning: A Social Software Perspective. Aachen, Germany: Shaker Verlag, 2010, pp. 19-42. http://mohamedaminechatti.blogspot.de/2013/01/the-laan-theory.html I've followed Chatti's blog in the past I think. Prof. Dr. Mohamed Amine Chatti is professor of computer science and head of the Social Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. (did his PhD at RWTH in 2010, which is presumably how I came across him, through Ralf Klamma)
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www.notentirelyboring.com www.notentirelyboring.com
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I have decided that the most efficient way to develop a note taking system isn’t to start at the beginning, but to start at the end. What this means, is simply to think about what the notes are going to be used for
yes. Me: re-usable insights from project work, exploring defined fields of interest to see adjacent topics I may move into or parts to currently focus on, blogposts on same, see evolutionary patterns in my stuff.
Btw need to find a diff term than output, too much productivity overtones. life isn't 'output', it's lived.
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seriously considering moving my research into a different app, or vault to keep it segregated from the slip box
? the notes are the research/learning, no? Not only a residue of it. Is this a mix-up between the old stock and flow disc in (P)KM and the sense it needs to be one or the other? Both! That allows dancing with it.
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maggieappleton.com maggieappleton.com
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One alternate approach is to start with our own curated datasets we trust. These could be repositories of published scientific papers, our own personal notes, or public databases like Wikipedia.We can then run many small specialised model tasks over them.
Yes, if I could run my own notes of 3 decades or so on an LLM locally (where it doesn't feed the general model), that I would do instantly.
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It’s difficult to find people who are being sincere, seeking coherence, and building collective knowledge in public.While I understand that not everyone wants to engage in these activities on the web all the time, some people just want to dance on TikTok, and that’s fine!However, I’m interested in enabling productive discourse and community building on at least some parts of the web. I imagine that others here feel the same way.Rather than being a primarily threatening and inhuman place where nothing is taken in good faith.
Personal websites like mine since mid 90s fit this. #openvraag what incentives are there actually for people now to start their own site for online interaction, if you 'grew up' in the silos? My team is largely not on-line at all, they use services but don't interact outside their own circles.
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boffosocko.com boffosocko.com
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Chris Aldrich on Ahrens and on quoting and processing by one's own rephrasing as mutually reinforcing. As Ahrens is regularly interpreted as advicing no quoting. Vgl [[Zettelkasten Ahrens 20201025194845]]
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He didn’t just put his notes anywhere, but rather, in a place that made sense at the time, near something related, even if this was not the only or even best place for the note to go in the long term. Again, this difficulty of there being no one, best place for a particular note was addressed through the use of cross-links between notes, making it so that any given note could "exist" in more than one spot.
Folgezettel are per the linked https://web.archive.org/web/20220125173712/https://omxi.se/2015-06-21-living-with-a-zettelkasten.html posting also a way to create some sort of initial overview in a physical system. In digital systems network maps serve a similar purpose as initial overview to be able to start with something. The outline Lawson mentions as origin is a thing in itself to me, esp as the connections / place in a system of a note can be reconsidered over time. Physical placement is by def a compromise, the question if it is a constraint that has a creative effect?
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hough I don’t know for certain, it seems possible that his system is a hybrid of the outlining method from law and the notecard method from history and sociology. The use of copious cross-links between the individual notes stems from his particular project of synthesizing knowledge from multiple disciplines, thus making it difficult to ever place most cards in one and only one spot in the ever-growing outline.
presumption: L's Folgezettel are a combination of outlining (as common in US maybe not German law edu) and the note cards used in sociology. Cross linking as a way to escape forced categorisation into exclusive buckets. Is there also in cross linking an element perhaps of escaping established idiom while building new (fields) of knowledge? (Vgl. Richard Rorty's struggle when forced to explain pragmatism in the language of Platonic dilemma's. [[Taal als zicht beperkend element 20031104104523]] )
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Luhmann’s particular implementation of zettelkasten method should not necessarily be seen as a universal model for all knowledge work because his implementation was tailored to his own project and research questions–i.e. the production of big social theory by drawing on disparate literatures from many disciplines.
Yes. Any pkm system or method is (or should be) tailored to one's own needs. Vgl [[% Interessevelden 20200523102304]] as [[Macroscope 20090702120700]]
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Here is the template I use for any Zettelkasten-related note:<%*const fileName = await tp.system.prompt("File Name");const fileType = await tp.system.suggester(["🌱", "🌿", "🌞", "🌲", "🧒", "🗺️"], ["seed", "fern", "incubating", "evergreen", "orphan", "moc"]);await tp.file.rename(fileName)let filePath = "100 Zettelkasten/"+fileNamelet mocQuery = ""switch (fileType) { case 'moc': filePath = "100 Zettelkasten/120 MOC/"+fileName mocQuery = '```dataview\nLIST\nFROM "100 Zettelkasten"\nWHERE contains(Topics,[['+fileName+']])\n```' break; case 'seed': filePath = "100 Zettelkasten/110 Zettelkasten Inbox/"+fileName break; }await tp.file.move(filePath)%>---aliases: tags: zettelkasten/<% fileType %>---Topics:: References:: # <% fileName %>---<% mocQuery %>
An interesting bit of code that could let me have a single template to create a note or a project or a MOC. I could replace 3 of my current templates with a single one, and reduce the number of special hotkeys too.
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「跨时距传递 」（What is difficult is not transferring content from place to place, but transferring it through time.）
**比如，你读了一本书，花了好几个小时的来理解书中的观点。
当你读完这本书时，你以为获得了宝贵的知识。
接下来你可能会尝试应用书中推荐的一些方式方法，
却发现事情并不像你想象的那样简单。
你可能会尝试改变你的饮食、运动、沟通或工作方式，相信习惯的力量。
但随后，生活中的日常需求又汹涌而来，让你忘记了当初这样做的动机是什么，一切又回到原点。**
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- Jan 2023
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You’re not going to have a clear picture at the start. So start with a fuzzy one
This sounds like what I call soft-focusing. Some years ago I let go of being strict with myself, and stopped having defined goals in favor of course/directions and a vaguer sense of the destination. I also started soft-focusing my inputs (if there's a connection to my running list of interests connected to my sense of direction it qualifies), and am now trying to soft-focus my outputs. Not blogpost / project A or deliverable B as I would earlier, but more emergent. Then when I have task / creative thing to do, I use it to formulate questions to my notes and see what comes up. This evolved from doing the same in conversations with clients and colleagues where the value of that and resulting associations was clearly visible.
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notes.andymatuschak.org notes.andymatuschak.org
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Here I’ve summarized Christian Tietze’s process, which I’m presently adopting / adapting:
Andy is Adapting the approach of zettelkasten writer Christian Tietze
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You need to take a step back and form a picture of the overall structure of the ideas. Concretely, you might do that by clustering your scraps into piles and observing the structure that emerges. Or you might sketch a mind map or a visual outline.
Andy suggests taking a step back and clustering annotations into piles or using a mind map or visualisations to identify common themes.
I wonder if this is a bit overkill for the number of notes I tend to take or a sign that I'm not taking enough notes?
What tools are out there that could integrate with my stack and help me do this.
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forum.obsidian.md forum.obsidian.md
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Note taking tools I’ve been keeping notes in systems like OneNote and Evernote for ages, but for my memory-related research and work 17 in combination with my commonplace book for the last year, I’ve been alternately using TiddlyWiki (with TiddlyBlink) and WordPress (it’s way more than a blog.) I’ve also dabbled significantly enough with related systems like Roam Research, Obsidian, Org mode/Org Roam, MediaWiki, DocuWiki, and many others to know what I’m looking for. Many of these, particularly those that can be used alternately as commonplace books and zettelkasten 9 appeal to me greatly when they include the idea of backlinks. (I’ve been using Webmention 19 to leverage that functionality in WordPress settings, and MediaWiki gives it grudgingly with the “what links to this page” basic functionality that can be leveraged into better transclusion if necessary.) The major problem with most note taking tools The final remaining problem I’ve found with almost all of these platforms is being able to quickly and easily get data into them so that I can work with or manipulate it. For me the worst part of note taking is the actual taking of notes. Once I’ve got them, I can do some generally useful things with them—it’s literally the physical method of getting data from a web page, book, or other platform into the actual digital notebook that is the most painful, mindless, and useless thing for me.
conscise summary - backlinking as crucial factor
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- Dec 2022
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medium.com medium.com
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Positive fantasies allow you to indulge in the desired future mentally…You can taste the sensations of what it’s like to achieve your goal in the present — this depletes your energy to pursue your desired future.
It's easy to get caught up fantasising about what you could achieve rather than actually taking action to achieve it.
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luhmann.surge.sh luhmann.surge.sh
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They also do not fall into the limits of what is obvious because we must cross the border between the one who takes note and the slip box itself. Every new entry can of course become isolated, like with the key word “Picasso” for the Picasso exhibition. If, however, we seek communication with the slip box, we must seek internal possibilities for linkings which result in the unexpected (i.e. information).
Estas preguntas sobre las nuevas posibilidades del archivo algorímico pasan por su intervención a partir de visualizaciones, búsquedas y otros algoritmos o emergencias.
Hay un diseñador (cuyo nombre no recuerdo, aunque está en mis notas de Telegram), que propone una manera de revisar las notas propias a partir de una aleatoriedad en forma de Oráculo, que propone nuevas conexiones "detonantes" (aleatorias más que relacionadas) a partir de lo previo en la medida en que se toman notas nuevas. Que la toma de nuevas notas sea así una manera de crear conexiones inesperadas. Algo similar ocurre cuando al agregar nuevas etiquetas a las notas que ya tenemos, se nos sugieren las etiquetas que ya están, haciendo que esa catalogación emergente conecte entre lecturas y notas, más que dentro de un mismo texto.
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herbertlui.net herbertlui.net
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It’s always worth gathering information, nurturing other projects, and putting together some backup plans. You’ll need to define what success means to you for each of them, because you won’t make overnight progress; instead, you’re best served picking projects that you can learn critical lessons from, even if you fail
It's interesting because this way of thinking is eminently compatible with the zettelkasten way of thinking e.g. don't necessarily set out with a hypothesis in mind that you're trying to prove but rather explore until something interesting emerges.
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- Nov 2022
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www.zylstra.org www.zylstra.org
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Annotations are the first step of getting useful insights into my notes. This makes it a prerequisite to be able to capture annotations in my note making tool Obsidian, otherwise Hypothes.is is just another silo you’re wasting time on. Luckily h. isn’t meant as a silo and has an API. Using the API and the Hypothes.is-to-Obsidian plugin all my annotations are available to me locally.
This is key - exporting annotations via the API to either public commonplace books (Chris A Style) or to a private knowledge store seems to be pretty common.
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In the same category of integrating h. into my pkm workflows, falls the interaction between h. and Zotero, especially now that Zotero has its own storage of annotations of PDFs in my library. It might be of interest to be able to share those annotations, for a more complete overview of what I’m annotating. Either directly from Zotero, or by way of my notes in Obsidian (Zotero annotatins end up there in the end)
I've been thinking about this exact same flow. Given that I'm mostly annotating scientific papers I got from open access journals I was wondering whether there might be some way to syndicate my zotero annotations back to h via a script.
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www.swyx.io www.swyx.io
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Whatever your thing is, make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning. Don’t judge your results by “claps” or retweets or stars or upvotes - just talk to yourself from 3 months ago
Completely agree, this is a great intrinsic metric to measure the success of your work by.
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a habit of creating learning exhaust:
not sure I love the metaphor but I can definitely see the advantages of leaving your learnings "out there" for others to see and benefit from
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- Oct 2022
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jarche.com jarche.com
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often say that my PKM approach is technology-neutral. I do not promote one tool about another. I share my top tools but do not ask others to use them. But it seems I do have a chosen technology — the blog.
Practice informs tool choice, tools do influence practice in return, and can become 'favourites' temporarily as exploration, but also long term. Here I'd say Harold's blogging is a practice more than a technology.
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My understanding of PKM began in 2004 with Lilia Efimova’s blogging of her journey through her doctoral dissertation on personal knowledge management entitled — Personal productivity in a knowledge intensive environment: A weblog case. So I came to PKM through my blog, Lilia’s blog, and the blogs of the researchers she was observing
I first encountered PKM in the form of Mick Cope's book Know Your Value, Value What You Know, which did little in terms of system for me, but helped cement setting the individual as key element in KM. That was the summer of 2000. Before that I had read Sveiby's New Organisation Wealth (first published 1997, read it in 2000), which wasn't about PKM, but still put the individual knowledge worker very much at the center of how KM evolves and why it is needed. For me PKM and KM were largely the same thing, with KM the aggregate over an organisation of the PKM of its people. In 2001 I joined KnowledgeBoard where I met Lilia, David Gurteen, Johnnie Moore, and many others active in this field. They reinforced the P in KM for me. It led me to blogging in nov 2002, after publishing an essay on KBoard about trust's role in KM, which very much centered on the P and relationships. In nov 2004 I co-org'd a PKM workshop at KM Europe, together with Lilia and Piers.
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I concluded that PKM is bullshit only when it is technology-centric, and not a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world and work more effectively.
PKM is defined by the P, not by the tools for M. This means an individual system aimed at what is of import to its user. In that system processes and methods come first, then tools. Although all tools in return influence the system. It's an artisanal perspective on tools: to be informed and shaped by the artisan's intent and experience, plus the experience gained of using the tool.
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This was when I came across the concept of PKM. It was a framework to connect with other professionals and make sense of our digitally connected world. I embraced it, especially as the financial cost was low.
I probably follow Harold's blog since then too. I remember Lilia and Harold interacted about PKM early on, and Lilia I and others organised a PKM workshop at KM Europe in Nov 2004. That came out of conversations on Knowledge Board, then a EU funded KM network of learning. KB based conversation was also what led me to blogging from Nov 2002.
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Being the architect of her own intellectual journey led her to create Sane
This sounds very PKM-ish, and the type of thing the IndieWeb community sees as starting point for the creation of independent webtools. Personal software that may be of interest to more users than yourself.
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