Zettelkasten and Evergreen MOC
To be able to play with ideas, we first have to liberate them from their original context by means of abstraction and respecification. –Sönke Ahrens
At the same time, if notes get too small they might loose part of their meaning. H2O should not be made any smaller (It would no longer be water).
Because a note is so small it can be easily used in combination with other notes.
See also
reducing scope sets up meaning and questions bring it home
Literature notes
Transclude of Create-Zettel-from-Reading-Notes-According-to-the-Principle-of-Atomicity-•-Zettelkasten-Method#^atom
Transclude of Create-Zettel-from-Reading-Notes-According-to-the-Principle-of-Atomicity-•-Zettelkasten-Method#^separate
It’s best to create notes which are only about one thing—but which, as much as possible, capture the entirety of that thing.–Evergreen notes should be atomic
literature notes should be kept separate from out other notes