And this is the most important part of the personal creative process. It's a garden, not a backyard...or a garage for that matter. And tending to the garden doesn't just need planting new seeds. it also needs tending to the rest of the garden which might be in different stages of growth. Some saplings. Some grown plants. Some already flowering. And yet others providing fruit. And each of them has to be tended to not - not just plant new ones.

I think this will also indicate my areas of interest. And as I believe it is better to follow your interest and follow your curiosity. That part of the notes will gather more volume. And I think a visual representation of that in Roam graph would be helpful to visualize.

Well, like Sonke points out in Zettlekasten, it is important to take notes in your own words. So, in that case, it would be important to figure out another additional layer for preserving context and preserving quotes needed to be cited in my own writing

This basically means to consume whatever you find interesting but know that some types are more depth oriented and others are more breadth oriented.

Hmmm what is this for? What does Zotero do? Why can't I save my references in Roam itself? Like other highlighting tools, I am assuming that the source of this article will come along anyway with the export from Hypothes.is. Something to follow up on....

First focus should be on input, idea generation and saving those ideas. I'll worry about how that ends up in a writing output for consumption by others, later.

This seems to be linked to "idea sex". Permanent notes is where idea sex is happening. And I have to make space and time to allow for that to happen as part of the daily life. The good callout is about the atomicity of the ideas. They should be captured as atomic ideas. One thing that I got out of Sonke's book was that a zettle is a discrete idea which maybe useful in a different context than what it was noticed. And if I don't keep them atomic, that transference from context to context will not be facilitated. So, that's important thing to keep in mind. So, two key things until now - first, make time and space for idea sex. Second, capture atomic ideas.

But for roam, where do literature nots and permanent notes sit? Fleeting notes are in quick capture or blocks in the daily notes section. I am guessing literature notes are going to be under the Title of the piece that I am consuming. So a Roam page with the title and all these highlights and my notes about them sitting in there. And what abut permanent notes? I'll have to figure that out. And perhaps the upcoming Roam Research book club on Sonke's book will help answer the question. My guess is that when I create bidirectional links and the notes I write in there would be the permanent notes and the ones that become part of the writing outcome.

This is what I am doing right now in Hypothes.is. But I am ambivalent about the idea of taking notes in my own words. These are digital times. Unlike Luhmann's time where he had to use index cards. And it is possible to save large amount of text and paraphrase when needed. Not just with the expectation that at some point in time it might be needed. But then, the reality is that if I write them in my own words, it does enhance the appreciation of the subject. The other pro of saving text from original pieces is that they can be used as quotes in the writing that would eventually follow. But if I keep note of the part in which I found that thought (page numbers of a book), that would satisfy the need to go back to it and find a quote if need be. But some parts of the text are just good quotes. They drive the point home well - better than I could do. They are better off left as quotes instead of paraphrased in my words. The whole creativity process seems to be evolving. First is the idea generation. Next is the capture. And at some point finally, use of that idea. In my case, writing.

Just add whatever comes to my mind (worth following up on) in the Roam Quick Capture

This is likely the key activity of all. After capture of idea, what do you do? Let it be and go collecting more ideas while it slowly fades away? This is what normally happens as I am more focused on input and not throttling the input. Just assuming that more input is better. More input which just withers away is not good except for mental masturbation and making me feel good about myself at exposing myself to so many new things. Forget that I am not really getting any value out of those ideas because I am not spending time and effort in tending to the garden of ideas. So, the creativity process needs to focus on making space and time to do the connecting.

This is incorrect - I should be saving ideas if I have a thought around it or it catches my attention for whatever reason. Connecting it to other ideas comes later, not at the time of capture of the idea. And, for that matter, this particular idea might not be connecting to anything right now, but might to another idea in the future - why lose it now? Let it sit there in the PKM

• Combine two or more ideas
• Need to create sustainable system for yourself
• Create a factory of ideas

This is like assembly line of idea generation. But then they will need to be further processed to be useful. Either acted upon or be part of the writing process

This would need ideas to be brought together. Perhaps in a proper personal KMS