Knowledge Accretes - Adam Cairns

What Should Notes Be About?

Note every note you take should end up in your Zettelkasten or your Note-Making System. Lists of errands to run, jobs to do are best organised elsewhere.

I separate the storage of documents (PDFs, web articles and so on) from where I store my notes. This is because I want to avoid the Collectors Fallacy, something I’ve been prone to in the past.

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Definition

Information Flow is the identification, capture and processing of an Item of Knowledge which has potential Lasting Value.

Information Flow Purpose

The Purpose of Information Flow is to ensure that there is a system in place for recording insights, ideas, thoughts or feelings associated with an Item of Knowledge which has potential Lasting Value.

Information Flow Methodology

All information reaches my consciousness in one of these ways:

reading books, articles, news reports etc
visiting websites
receiving emails
listening to podcasts, radio, music
watching TV, opera, movies etc
other apps e.g.

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