BlogFlockSo many, many books I really want to read. Here are just a couple on this towering tsundoku pile:
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston đź“š
The Best of all Possible Worlds by Michael Kempe
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Writing Slowly22 posts last monthAn interesting Zettelkasten discussion.
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See also: my review of A System for Writing.
It's a great time to be writing the future
Writing Slowly22 posts last monthWriters are worrying about AI taking their livelihoods. But unless you were already writing like a robot, that’s not how it works.
Now is a truly fantastic time to be writing. The future is absolutely wide open for the first time in a more than a century. That’s because the…
Five solutions to link rot in my personal note collection
Writing Slowly22 posts last monthHave you noticed that the problem of link rot on the Web is very real? Just writing a link to a separate page, without comment or annotation, assumes permanence and depends on that link persisting through time. But links don’t really work that way. They become obsolete far faster than…
Tame the chaos with just four folders for all your notes
Writing Slowly22 posts last monthBob Doto’s book A System for Writing (my review) suggests setting up a Zettelkasten (a flexible collection of notes) with a small handful of folders.
These folders aren’t merely places to put notes, though. They suggest a specific workflow - a system for writing.
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Writing Slowly22 posts last monthCan you make too many notes? This guy did. #zettelkasten #notetaking #pkm
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Writing Slowly22 posts last month💬 This is a quiet space…
Moving to Sydney offered cheap train travel compared with Europe. “Never mind arriving,” I would say, “it’s great value just for the view.”
Looks like they’ve finally worked out the real value proposition.
Lord Acton took too many notes, but that doesn't mean you have to
Writing Slowly22 posts last monthIt’s intriguing to discover a prolific author with a working collection of 148,000 notes, but it begs the question: can you make too many notes?
I mean, surely there comes a point where your note-making gets in the way of the outcomes you’re looking for, and the endless writing…
The Dance of Joyful Knowledge: Inside Georges Didi-Huberman's Monumental Note Archive
Writing Slowly22 posts last monthPeople sometimes ask, “who these days uses Zettelkasten-style hand-written notes to produce significant work?” There are literally thousands of examples from before the digital age (Leonardo for example), but what of today? Isn’t this kind of thing pretty much obsolete?
No, it’s not obsolete. I’m happy to say the…
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Writing Slowly22 posts last monthThe article that struck Will like a bolt of lightning:
What’s the purpose of making notes?
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