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  1. Jan 2025
    1. 30 yrs worth of online notebooks by theme by Cosma Shalizi. Shalizi is an assoc prof of stats at Carnegie Mellon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosma_Shalizi Mentioned in Oct 2024 blogpost http://bactra.org/weblog/30-years-of-notebooks.html he started them in sept '94, based on a list of topics of interest he wrote out (orginally intended to use as filter for Usenet). Making such a list of topics is very commonplace like.

  2. Dec 2024
    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20241221133519/https://danielwirtz.com/blog/bottom-up-note-taking-in-capacities

      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.

    1. Once the ideas have been organized in a way that makes sense, the real writing begins. Bring the ideas and any useful comments into a new writing doc. Decide on who will do what, taking into consideration each participant's strength.

      In TGL this would the diff domain teams and project teams, putting stuff to their own purpose.

    2. simply make note of the connection, state why you've done so, and move on to the next note. No consultation between participants is required.

      Agreed, but indeed any connection must be annotated, to be understood by collab partners. Counterexample is the usually meaningless linking in Wikipedia.

    3. A Collaborative Zettelkasten for Collaborative Output

      Vgl landscapes, IEC writing projects, deskresearch/essays in general.

    4. 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.

    5. Participants may or may not have a common output, goal, or project in mind when they start. The only requirements are: all participants add to the collection of main notes all participants establish connections between ideas all participants are free to pull from the zettelkasten for their writing projects

      This describes a wiki too. What difference? Wiki tends to follow the Wikipedia model perhaps, aiming for completeness / definitive state? Wikipedia is not atomic in the ZK sense. Also public wiki's (the ones one is by def aware of) are an output themselves. My internal wiki 2004-2012 was much more atomic and not an output but an instrument. So if wiki then more of the instrument style, iow ZK by another name. A collective network of meaning and sense making

  3. Nov 2024
    1. those with a card index or zettelkasten-based reading and note making practice will realize that they’re probably automatically following the advice

      Note making does create space for reflection, is the thinking. But even before notes, annotation does too.

      n:: notes as thinking vgl 'writing is thinking' annotation as thinking vs conversation, conversation as thinking through expression

  4. Sep 2024
    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

  5. Jul 2024
    1. 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.

    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20240711102003/https://longnow.org/ideas/moonbound/

      via Frank Meeuwsen https://frankmeeuwsen.com/2024/07/10/dragons-on-the.html

      On writing [[Moonbound by Robin Sloan]] , Sloan makes a few remarks about his notes that support his writing process.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

  6. Feb 2023
    1. Why not work on improving a technical solution for Folgezettel?

      Reading this I realise I'm not using Folgezettel really, only linking back to a previous notion. There's some sequencing, esp when I create little 'trains' (a notion, a link to a more abstract notion, a link to a more detailed one, a link to an example). The forward linking I generally not do, except sometimes. L always did forward linking in the sense of placing the index card.