“Reference” Notes on Doto, part 1
Metadata
- Author: Dan Allosso
- Full Title: “Reference” Notes on Doto, part 1
- Category:articles
- Summary: Dan Allosso summarizes key points from Bob Doto’s writing on note-taking and the Zettelkasten method. He highlights the importance of capturing and connecting ideas in a personal and meaningful way, emphasizing that everyone’s notes reflect their unique experiences. Allosso also notes that engaging with notes should be exciting and help reduce the anxiety often associated with writing.
- URL: https://lifelonglearn.substack.com/p/reference-notes-on-doto-part-1
Highlights
- Everyone’s notes are personal andidiosyncratic, based on their interests and life experiences. No one gets the same highlights out of a text (View Highlight)
- The mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” … Engaging with the slip box should feel exciting, not anxiety-producing. By giving your ideas a place to land, an inbox helps alleviate some of the potential anxiety that initially comes from working non-hierarchically (View Highlight)
- There’s a lot at stake when putting thoughts into words (View Highlight)
- writing, even in the form of short notes, helps us understand what we think we know (View Highlight)
- When you have an agenda, all forms of media can be mined for inspiration and information (View Highlight)
- The stuff that gets under your skin can be incredibly motivating (View Highlight)
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Write, underline, or otherwise indicate in the margins interesting passages you encountered while reading. Go back and pull what interests you into a reference note. (View Highlight)
- A title acts as a condensed thesis summing up the content of the idea stored in the note. It should be a declarative statement rather than a descriptor. “Not all apples are edible” is a better title than “Apples and edibility.” (View Highlight)