2/20/2023 0 Comments Collected tags folder tagspacesA tag doesn’t even tell you if the reference to Samuel Adams is about the person or about the kind of beer (which is why we so desperately need vocabularies). But what exactly? A tag doesn’t tell you whether an article is a critique of a person, an interview with a person or whether it just mentions that person in passing. A tag on a news article says “this article has something to do with this concept or thing”. They’re a very primitive way of spelling out how things relate to each other. Random thoughts, I know, but hopefully something will prove stimulating!Īside: the tagging discussion (and this entire discussion in general) reminds me of a debate about tags vs links. Eventually, YOUR OWN system will come into being and things will flow more smoothly. My biggest piece of advice: just start capturing information, attempting to always write why you found the information important. I've "started" a zettel several times now, with tree-based information managers, with markdown textfiles, and now with Dokuwiki. A file system of my own thoughts continues to show it's power, again and again. A jumble of other people's text bits is meaningless to me. It is so important to collect why the fact was interesting. Don't know if you've read the post on the Collector's Fallacy: I find this very true and something I fight against continually. Having loosely followed the zettelkasten idea for a few years, I believe you're correct in noting that's a little more process oriented than tool-oriented.īack a few posts there was some discussion about ideas vs facts. I've responded about zettelkasten in IanB's discussion on OneNote, but here are a couple of thoughts from loosely following this thread:
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