Really enjoying prefacing book notes with:
- Evergreens & Key Concepts: Beliefs & conclusions you come to while reading. Plus key terms.
- Essential Questions: Borrowed from 'Understanding by Design' theory.
Cross-disciplinary big picture Q's the book is trying to answer
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Cool! So you put the evergreen idea under the title as well as within the note? Or is what we're seeing here a summary of it?
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Depends on the evergreen.
Some are broad realisations and not connected to a specific part of the text so they’re just top level.
But if they're strongly related to a particular chapter I create the original there, and do a block reference to top level.
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I love all the public explorations of [[Zettelkasten]] that are going on right now!
Thanks for sharing your process here
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Can I ask what you are taking notes on? I would like to read more about visual explanation.
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"Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative" by Edward Tufte!
edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vi
It's the canonical book on this topic.
I "read" it many years ago but never took deep notes. It's 10x better than I even remembered on second pass.
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