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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Per Alan Kay, it's a pop culture; for the most part, people aren't engaging deeply with the problem.
(separately, though I think the former is the true reason: I'm not optimistic that current cogsci theories about this particular topic present many powerful ideas)
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Very much this, cog sci has a lot to say about brain processing and less to say about thinking as we think of it. (I’m reading a lot at the moment on my way to writing a book about thinking)
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Hmmm... I'd argue it's because "note-taking" is conceptually very easy to conceive, and therefore easy to develop or use or evaluate; whereas "externalised thinking"... what would that do? How could people begin to think about what that is, how to rate it or compare solutions?
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Yes, twofold - it's the easiest thing to tech up - "we have databases!" and at the same time, one of the reasons I'm writing is because we need better handles on thinking and what can help it (not just digitally, but in general too)
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1/ Let's talk about how note taking can help you accelerate expertise.
Yes, I know how that sounds like.
No, this isn't hype.
There's some solid cognitive science here, and it has FASCINATING things to say about the nature of learning in messy, real world domains.
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