Compounding Notes

Within a note-taking system, when a few ideas come together to form a new one, this should be represented by the creation of a new note which represents the new concept.

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• Compounding Ideas
  • Within this note-taking system, this kind of relationship results in a new note which can then be connected to others.
• Atomic Notes
  • When a new concept presents itself out of the confluence of other notes, create a new note based on this new idea.
• Create note-taking analogies for manipulating ideas
  • Compound ideas by creating new notes
• Abstract ideas by building patterns
  • 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.