Increasingly curious as to why the tools-for-thought folk talk a lot about note-taking tool features and plugins and not at all about the cognitive science of better externalised thinking.
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An example of why paying attention to the cognitive science is important:
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One of the basic ideas: bullet points make it easy to create the *facade* of order. You don't need to specify logical relations, like "A causes B" or "A explains B" - bullet format encourages jumbles without narrative or logical cohesiveness.
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Great thread. Thank you for curating.
Only contra-point - yes many TfTs are outliners, but they're also not PowerPoint. They don't invisibly push you to summarize, summarize.
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That wasn’t the point of linking to that thread 😬
Sure, TfTs don’t push you to summarise, but then what do they push you towards?
Are the forms of cognition they encourage better in some ways, or worse? What ways?
Where are the Tufte-style analyses?
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Fair, thank you for clarifying.
I can only just begin to answer your questions by saying that folks that use TfTs hope to achieve the clarity of thought that Feynman did.
Of course, we're not Feynman.
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I’m definitely not Feynman, but what he describes is exactly how I experience working in Roam. Also, the bullets can hold any amount of text and can also be made invisible, rendering as a document with paragraphs. I regularly write longform prose in #Roam.
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