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• tomp

  3:12PM

  @a_j_h said:
  Thank you in advance for any comments following my first post. I've just purchased The Archive and have read through the introductory material. My intuition of how I will begin, which will naturally evolve, will heavily involve the use of structure notes. To exemplify, I am currently reading Heidegger's Being & Time (the new translation by Welch is welcome). I have created what I would call a book note for Being & Time, and am slowly adding some notes into this book note - the criteria for the notes created is what I find interesting and evocative. Over time, I imagine, some of the zettels from this book note will have a question/theme/concept that they share, such as temporality, anxiety, death, which may turn into a structure note, e.g., the question of temporality, the question of anxiety, the question of death. Future readings may align with these structure notes, or they may note. There is no correct beginning, but my intuition is to begin with book notes, which may organically lead to questions of interest, which will take the form of structured notes. Any observations from more experienced users would be welcome.

  I think you will find that as you read the book you may notice new ideas arising that are not just restatements of what you have read. Some of them may be worth saving, at least so you can come back and pursue them. So make sure you are prepared to write notes for them as well as for material that strictly involves the book's material.
• a_j_h

  4:36PM

  @tomp said:

  @a_j_h said:
  Thank you in advance for any comments following my first post. I've just purchased The Archive and have read through the introductory material. My intuition of how I will begin, which will naturally evolve, will heavily involve the use of structure notes. To exemplify, I am currently reading Heidegger's Being & Time (the new translation by Welch is welcome). I have created what I would call a book note for Being & Time, and am slowly adding some notes into this book note - the criteria for the notes created is what I find interesting and evocative. Over time, I imagine, some of the zettels from this book note will have a question/theme/concept that they share, such as temporality, anxiety, death, which may turn into a structure note, e.g., the question of temporality, the question of anxiety, the question of death. Future readings may align with these structure notes, or they may note. There is no correct beginning, but my intuition is to begin with book notes, which may organically lead to questions of interest, which will take the form of structured notes. Any observations from more experienced users would be welcome.

  I think you will find that as you read the book, you may notice new ideas arising that are not just restatements of what you have read. Some of them may be worth saving, at least so you can come back and pursue them. So make sure you are prepared to write notes for them as well as for material that strictly involves the book's material.

  This is a helpful observation, thank you.
• tomp

  4:55PM

  @a_j_h said:

  @tomp said:

  @a_j_h said:
  Thank you in advance for any comments following my first post. I've just purchased The Archive and have read through the introductory material. My intuition of how I will begin, which will naturally evolve, will heavily involve the use of structure notes. To exemplify, I am currently reading Heidegger's Being & Time (the new translation by Welch is welcome). I have created what I would call a book note for Being & Time, and am slowly adding some notes into this book note - the criteria for the notes created is what I find interesting and evocative. Over time, I imagine, some of the zettels from this book note will have a question/theme/concept that they share, such as temporality, anxiety, death, which may turn into a structure note, e.g., the question of temporality, the question of anxiety, the question of death. Future readings may align with these structure notes, or they may note. There is no correct beginning, but my intuition is to begin with book notes, which may organically lead to questions of interest, which will take the form of structured notes. Any observations from more experienced users would be welcome.

  I think you will find that as you read the book, you may notice new ideas arising that are not just restatements of what you have read. Some of them may be worth saving, at least so you can come back and pursue them. So make sure you are prepared to write notes for them as well as for material that strictly involves the book's material.

  This is a helpful observation, thank you.

  As you start to accumulate notes, I also suggest that you start testing, or practicing with, your Archive. See if you can find what you think you ought to be able to find, and see if connections and links are working the way you thought they would. Notice which notes engage your interest, and try to see why they do. If a note isn't interesting soon after you write it, it will seem boring and liable to be ignored in the future. The element of interest is partly a matter of what a note is about, and partly of how it is written.

  There is a real element of skill and practice involved and you will improve over time. Testing will help this process quite a lot, especially as time passes and you start to forget all those things that seemed so clear that you couldn't forget them.
• a_j_h

  5:11PM

  As you start to accumulate notes, I also suggest that you start testing, or practicing with, your Archive. See if you can find what you think you ought to be able to find, and see if connections and links are working the way you thought they would. Notice which notes engage your interest, and try to see why they do. If a note isn't interesting soon after you write it, it will seem boring and liable to be ignored in the future. The element of interest is partly a matter of what a note is about, and partly of how it is written.

  There is a real element of skill and practice involved, and you will improve over time. Testing will help this process quite a lot, especially as time passes and you start to forget all those things that seemed so clear that you couldn't forget them.

  Yes, I have a sense of what you may be articulating. I think the criteria for a zettel will be how evocative or interesting the idea is before it is created. I am using a Plaud Note Pro, so my process, at the minute, is to generate audio notes, transcribea and then give time/space before being reviewed over the weekend. Those that still offer interest will be exported into The Archive. I only want to extract from a text what is personally evocative or what aligns with what problems I'm preoccupied with.

  Going back to your previous point about personal observations that aren't directly related to a text, I may designate *0 for these observations, *B for book notes, *S for structure notes, linking as organic structures/preoccupations emerge. For example, observations that are indirectly related to a text may be linked to a book note, or they may stay as a *0 until they find a home. Does this speak to the observation you made regarding these notes? How do you process such notes?
• tomp

  5:25PM

  @a_j_h said:
  ... I am currently reading Heidegger's Being & Time (the new translation by Welch is welcome). I have created what I would call a book note for Being & Time, and am slowly adding some notes into this book note - the criteria for the notes created is what I find interesting and evocative.

  You might find this post in the book interesting - I certainly did -

  https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/04/13/being-and-time/