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Literature notes
Fleeting notes
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There’s more on an individual page of his Literature notes are separate. Evergreen notes are responsible for being concept-oriented and a place where we do our own thinking, our own interpretation of material, building other’s ideas into our system of knowledge. They have few direct quotes or source material from others. However, source pages are mostly thoughts directly from the author in the material being digested, and while this is important for getting the proper context and understanding the author’s point, it should be kept separate our own “zettel” system. Andy notes it’s “hard to hear yourself think”, so we should be sure to clearly differentiate between a space for our own thoughts and those directly representing others.
Luckily this works quite well with my current system setup; I have zettels as a separate folder of notes from the direct feed notes or wiki notes. All subsystems can be referenced freely between each other, but the original idea was to keep these separate precisely for the reason Andy mentioned: so I could make it easy to distinguish between content directly derived from source material and that of my own thinking. This is good reinforcement for my design.