Zettelkasten and Evergreen notes
Work in progress
Literature notes
Quoting leads to passive engagement with the material. Actively look at the material whether it supports or refutes previous ideas. Insight through dialogue in Roam
Fleeting notes
When you quote, don’t read the original, quote from memory, even if it takes many tries. This will edge it in to your memory.
- It is better to actively engage with the material (slowly) then passively quoting.
- When reading you are looking (searching) for insights. Either justify or refutate your previous understanding.
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First you make notes
- {{youtube-timestamp 371}} reading note & thinking note → ideas prompted because book
- The speaker is big on labeling authors also uses
[[self]] - {{youtube-timestamp 536}} don’t quote → if you rewrite a quote, don’t read the original, write from memory
- put some mental effort into the process → insight
- test of memory
- actively engaging with the text is better (quality) better to go back and forth
- Quoting leads to passive reading. The whole point is thinking.
Next is making claims: subject/predicate declarative sentence
- {{youtube-timestamp 660}} we are looking for insights:
- either justifications or refutations
- reword → distills big idea in our notes → formulates structured manner
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- {{youtube-timestamp 784}} Claim: declaritive sentence: subject phrase first predicate phrase last