Posts tagged “knowledge”
We Need a Gym for the Mind
I listened to a Podcast episode of Modern Wisdom with Cal Newport. There was an interesting idea of him feeling like Cassandra. He called the problem of the modern knowledge work environment early and, in his book Deep Work, gave a pretty straightforward manual on how to solve it on a personal level. I never read it, but from the summaries it seems that A World Without Email could be seen as a manual on how to solve the issue on a corporate level.
The Cultivation of Knowledge Is the Objective of Knowledge Work
Dear Zettlers, This sentence states perfectly the mechanics of the Zettelkasten as a tool and how to integrate it into one’s overall workflow: The cultivation of knowledge is the objective of knowledge work and productivity workflows facilitate this effort. (Source)
The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything”
Dear Zettlers, This scam is decades old now and it is quite surprising that people still fall for it. The search engines, old note-taking apps (you know, those with an elephant icon and the like) and AI have something in common: They claim that the effort of remembering things is outdated like using a candle in the age of electric light.
Backlinking Is Not Very Useful -- Often Even Harmful
Disclaimer: I talked with Christian about what backlinks are. I don’t mean it as a technical concept like software and web developers would use the term. To me, a backlink is a link that allows you to go to files that refer to the very note you are looking at. Practically, it does not matter how the backlink is generated, by hand or presented to you by your software. Automatic backlinks are not only automatic when there is software that is showing them for you. If you create a backlink apparatus by habit it is still automatic. The automatization software would then be in your head.
Alex Chamessian is Designing His Own Personal Knowledge Management App
A blog post called “Designing a Personal Knowledgebase” caught my attention today. In it, Alex tells us how he’s struggling. In his worflow, he extracts information and stores it in his note archive, but he can’t seem to make much use of it.
Stop Relying on a Source and Have Faith in Your own Thoughts
I’ve got a confession to make. Years ago, I was driven by fear: What if I don’t fully understand what the author of a text is saying? I needed to have a backup plan; I had the strong desire to hold on to 100% of the information in a text. I put original articles into my Zettelkasten, and I pasted pages of books into notes without much commentary. The rationale was, to simply store the original text would be the best way to achieve 100% coverage of the author’s intent. Makes sense, doesn’t it?