Wow! I wish that would have been available when I was a student. I was a student when Luhmanns magnum opus came out “Social Systems” took me two years to muster the courage to read it together with two other students and it took all our three brains to wrap our heads around it. It was worth every second.
Something we were never taught in high school! Something we could have used in high school and college and beyond. I am reading his book right now. This presentation made the ideas much clearer for me.
I have a doubt in writing notes and slip box,First of all I want to write Fleeting notes which mean during reading a book or learning something writing of what actually I think of it During reading like open minded then After completing that passage or chapter I want to write Literature notes like Topic and Sub Topics And Quotes in one side and That meaning definition with small and with my own words not copy paste in other side then I want to Give that A heading ,A name to find it convenient and orderise it like 1@ 2@ etc.. then I want to Read the Fleeting mote and The Literature note and Write the Main note of What I am interested in that ,What I was learned ,What I felt wrong or right ,Is some Idea I created new from what I learning and With my Thinking? Is that idea useful to me in anyway ? Like that and Name that note exact same as Literature with some kind of differ to find that this is Main note of my ideas .Then I want to throw away the Fleeting note and Put the Main note and Literature note in the Slip box,right?
At 16:40 his slide says there are three main types of notes: Fleeting, Project-related, and Permanent. But in his dialogue he seems to describe four: those three, plus “Literature notes”. Is “Project-related notes” just another name for “Literature notes”? Or are “Literature notes” a sub-type of “Permanent notes” (or vice-versa)? Or what?
in his book, ahrens describes literature or reference notes as a sub-type of permanent notes seems like a fourth type would have been appropriate since he suggests keeping literature notes separate from the other permanent notes
There's a tendency to equate Smart Notes with Luhmann's Zettelkasten as though there are one and the same. Yes, similarities, but are they really one and the same? Scott P. Scheper's Antinet system seems closer to Luhmann's Zettelkasten than Smart Notes. Or am I missing something here?
I don't think you will find any. Even if you will buy some note taking courses from self-advertised experts who are shaving the sheeps, it doesn't mean you will get the value out of them. This note taking thing is really personal thing. Brains of every human work differently. One thing you can do, is to start to make small simple atomic notes. Don't be afraid of volume. Atomic notes will enable better compose-ability and reuse. Don't bloat them with stilling and what not. Just a heading and some text or bullet points. Then basic metadata like timestamp, tags and some links to other notes. Don't implement ANY folder structure. It will lead you into the trap of "Where should i place this note? In Health or Recipes folder?". All your knowledge is just one big pool of interconnected notes. Like a real brain. You can reference from anywhere to anywhere. After a while... (~1000 notes) you will start to see some patterns bubbling up. And those will be exactly YOUR patterns. Not somebodies else frameworks. If you start simple, you can't go wrong! As flat and as simple as you can. P.S. I am using Obsidian and VimWiki at the same time.
@@BIGJ4898 Atomicity means that every note (file) is small. It contains just a one idea/thought. Basically if you see yourself writing bunch of ##, ###, ####, etc paragraphs into single note then IMO it is a smell. It means you are trying to put in a single note too much. You will not be able quickly scan the entire note. It will be hard to reference to this note as it will be too broad. When your note is small... a single idea, concept, whatever... you can link to this note from different places. But... atomicity does not apply to the "Article", "Book" kind of notes. When you write a entire article, then you are composing it from many smaller notes or referencing to them. So... articles for sure will be big/er. Atomicity enables better composability.
I was really disappointed to hear that the author of the book is not able to successfully use this system for his own work! seems like there is a lot of analysis of how this note taking system works but very few people are actually having the daily discipline to use it in the long term. perhaps this is another sign of our societies digital ADHD and lack of ability for deep thinking due to information overload.