Hi, . Have you done any thinking about explicit (or implicit) teaching of note taking strategies or knowledge work? See my notes in the thread ^^
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Yes. But I concluded that the underlying ideas are too nascent, and that I want to develop them much more before spending time spreading them.
May run workshops/classes in the meantime, but the point will be to help me understand, not to teach.
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To put it another way: I’ll want to work on spreading a given computer-supported thinking idea once I feel it's clearly enabled important work on the margin. Before then, feels too navel-gaze-y / “lifehacker”-y. Better to focus on honing and testing the ideas themselves.
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I’m extremely concerned about falling into this trap:
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Can’t speak for others’ practices, but in my practice, this type of sharable note is quite curated and edited. The title is a carefully-chosen “API,” which I use to find it in other contexts.
They’re not written to be shared with others, but sometimes I do anyway.
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A key reason I can't use others' notes verbatim is that they usually lack several properties of evergreen notes: they aren't concept-factored, or they lack a clear API-ish title, or whatever. I might feel differently if others published their evergreen notes.
I used to think importing is what we want, but now I'm not so sure, esp. after my super-fun "zettelconversation" with - I think maybe we want something like version control where you "fork" someone else's evergreen note so you ensure you hear yourself think :)
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My mental model is that a truly useful note needs to be embedded in your personal context which is like digestion.
Someone can partially digest an idea for you but at the end of the day you need to do your own digesting.
A good teacher or well-written note is like a mama bird.
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