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Field Report #5: How I Prepare Reading and Processing Effective Notetaking by Fiona McPherson
Field Report #5: How I Prepare Reading and Processing Effective Notetaking by Fiona McPhersonWhen you process a book into your Zettelkasten you should prepare both the book and your Zettelkasten. I set clear expectations and why I am reading a book; I review the table of content to generate a mental map; I review the table… -
Q&A #5 - How to write good titles for your Zettelkasten
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Re: Less than 100 notes and already feeling overwhelmed: I need help! :-D
@Sascha said: Well, you literally said, "the academic environment is about publishing papers, not doing knowledge work." I had to guess what "not doing knowledge work" meant, but thank you for clarifying your position. A lot of good work gets published by academics, so there must be institutions or departments that are not… -
Re: What ideas are you wrestling with this week? February 2, 2023
Work Blog I'm still working away on the blog I'm doing for young engineers at work, called "It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts". Post #5 is about to go live next week. I find it's taking 10+ hours for each post, which is from 4000 to 8000 words long. The posts rely heavily on my ZK - it's nice to see it… -
Re: Effective Notetaking by Fiona McPherson
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Re: Less than 100 notes and already feeling overwhelmed: I need help! :-D
Yes, I literally said that. But I hope the phrase without any ellipses would be like: "the academic environment is about publishing papers, not about doing knowledge work. I think that is a fallacy because knowledge work can be done in a hostile environment. That is my core criticism of the academic world: The work… -
Re: Effective Notetaking by Fiona McPherson
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Re: Less than 100 notes and already feeling overwhelmed: I need help! :-D
This is not what I wrote. I wrote that the academic environment is about publishing papers, not that the academics don't do knowledge work. The above is a common complaint of academics. I quote Hannah Arendt (grabed from Wikipedia): "This publish-or-perish business is a disaster. People write things that should never have… -
Re: Less than 100 notes and already feeling overwhelmed: I need help! :-D
@IvanFerrero said: I am thinking about what @IvanFerrero said about "formats" in relation to a comment I wrote recently in another discussion in which I said: Any format would be fine; the common principle is that there is an established schema that is consistently encoded so that not only can your future self clearly…