Abstract ideas by building patterns¶
Abstract ideas within a note-taking system by building patterns within your notes. These represent the over-arching ideas that form from seeing the same idea repeated, and can be applied to new contexts to create new ideas.
In reality, building patterns looks very similar to compounding and connecting your notes - making new files, adding hyperlinks between them. This is part of the power of keeping it simple - abstract ideas are no different from concrete ones, and building them up in this way has value. As is often the case, the value is in the links between ideas.
Question
is there a pyramid of abstraction? i.e. are there less abstract ideas than concrete ones? As ideas are effectively uncountable, does it matter?