A few friends have brought this to my attention, and one said that I should share some updates, which I am happy to do.
It'd take another book to write a re-treatment of notes and notekeeping, but three major emphasis would be:
1. Time, or rather, "epoch" or "period," are more important than subject. Subject is secondary to epoch, but still important.
2. Proper placement is more important than the capacity to link distances via page numbers. Page numbers are valuable, but the page numbering scheme I used was overboard. Valuable for mapping out every thought, but not valuable for living a life and getting benefit from notekeeping. Page numbers and links are exciting at first, but a poor substitute for things being where they belong in the first place. So I keep much more white space now, and I structure things as I develop, such that there are places for information to be integrated in.
3. "Don't write letters to dead people." This is about a principle of action. It is important to think about: "Who is going to read this note?" Yes, you, of course. But you -- when? I now take a much more mission-centric approach to my projects and my research. YES, sometimes you really are working on a twenty year mega project. I have projects like that. Other times, it's: "This is valid for 6 months." Or even just 1 month. This relates to pre-deleting, but it's important to have a sense of -- like in Death Stranding, you are preparing for a trip. What are you bringing? What are you not bringing? What is disposable? What will you need? My notes are far tidier than they were back 20 years ago.
Zettelkasten I think is a good path -- as far as I understand it, it is: "networked islands of structure." I'm all for it.
Today, I do a lot of research into networked data, and mediums for expressing code and data.
I think a lot of the promise of computer notes and programming and such, would do well to focus on the medium that we use. I would like to see text files replaced with an easily parsable "schematic" medium, for example: https://communitywiki.org/wiki/SchematicMedium
If anybody would like to talk, I encourage you to find "Lion's Internet Office" on the Internet, and come and stop by. I'm happy to answer questions, learn about people's projects, and I love collaborating with people on things. We have a somewhat monthly group discussion chat in real-time, too, where you can introduce yourself, or ask questions, etc.,.
Thank you for your attention, I deeply appreciate the comments from people -- the positive ones are profoundly appreciated, and the "negative" ones are -- I kind of grin, because I think that they are also correct! Thank you.
It'd take another book to write a re-treatment of notes and notekeeping, but three major emphasis would be:
1. Time, or rather, "epoch" or "period," are more important than subject. Subject is secondary to epoch, but still important.
2. Proper placement is more important than the capacity to link distances via page numbers. Page numbers are valuable, but the page numbering scheme I used was overboard. Valuable for mapping out every thought, but not valuable for living a life and getting benefit from notekeeping. Page numbers and links are exciting at first, but a poor substitute for things being where they belong in the first place. So I keep much more white space now, and I structure things as I develop, such that there are places for information to be integrated in.
3. "Don't write letters to dead people." This is about a principle of action. It is important to think about: "Who is going to read this note?" Yes, you, of course. But you -- when? I now take a much more mission-centric approach to my projects and my research. YES, sometimes you really are working on a twenty year mega project. I have projects like that. Other times, it's: "This is valid for 6 months." Or even just 1 month. This relates to pre-deleting, but it's important to have a sense of -- like in Death Stranding, you are preparing for a trip. What are you bringing? What are you not bringing? What is disposable? What will you need? My notes are far tidier than they were back 20 years ago.
Zettelkasten I think is a good path -- as far as I understand it, it is: "networked islands of structure." I'm all for it.
Today, I do a lot of research into networked data, and mediums for expressing code and data.
For example, I wrote a system called "Minicubes," which I intend to redo in Python+Tcl/Tk -- you can see a demonstration at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPyLDXZlb4
I think a lot of the promise of computer notes and programming and such, would do well to focus on the medium that we use. I would like to see text files replaced with an easily parsable "schematic" medium, for example: https://communitywiki.org/wiki/SchematicMedium
If anybody would like to talk, I encourage you to find "Lion's Internet Office" on the Internet, and come and stop by. I'm happy to answer questions, learn about people's projects, and I love collaborating with people on things. We have a somewhat monthly group discussion chat in real-time, too, where you can introduce yourself, or ask questions, etc.,.
Thank you for your attention, I deeply appreciate the comments from people -- the positive ones are profoundly appreciated, and the "negative" ones are -- I kind of grin, because I think that they are also correct! Thank you.