Pages and Notes Structure
Pages and Notes StructurePages and Notes StructurePages and Notes Structure A model for how to structure a Zettelkasten. * Note = content. Long descriptive title that explains its core idea, short in length (a few paragraphs), covering one core idea. * Page = Skeleton. Links to content, but no content itself. Just a scaffold to plug things into. Think: the table of contents. A page is the skill-tree. Notes are the skills. Pages and Notes Structure 2023-05-02 19.43.06.excalidraw.png %%🖋 Edit in Excalidraw, and the dark exported image%% P
A model for how to structure a ZettelkastenZettelkastenZettelkasten A form of "Hypertextual note taking", where Atomic Notes representing small ideas (memes) become highly interrelated through ample references, links, and embeds. Modeled after the human brain, (or rather, a model of the human brain), in which densely interconnected neurons become more than the sum of their parts. Core Idea * Human friendly * connects nodes together the way our brain connects ideas together. * Ideas are not a singular monolithic entity, they're a series of i.
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Note = content. Long descriptive title that explains its core idea, short in length (a few paragraphs), covering one core idea.
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Page = Skeleton. Links to content, but no content itself. Just a scaffold to plug things into. Think: the table of contents.
A page is the skill-tree. Notes are the skills.
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Pages will end up looking quite long (they can be entire books), but under the hood are quite small - just scaffolding with embeds to the actual content.
Pages can be top-down (like a Table Of Contents for a book), or they can represent a Random Walk Through A Graph. Maybe just clicking through eight random notes via backlinks and references creates a interesting narrative which deserves to be its own page.