§Slipbox Systems

How to Take Smart Notes

Notes and statements should be bloody

You can use a zettlekasten to explicitly interface with the emulations of people that you carry on your shoulder

Science fiction is a powerful tool for transmitting science or economic ideas

Note titles that read as thoughts makes them more memorable, findable, and transmissible

Embedding note titles into prose enables precise thought

A ‘related’ section can serve as kindling for an evergreen note

Prose-based evergreen notes enable better thinking

What about fiction or analogy notes in a slip box system?

Could you build a community the same way you build a zettlekasten?

How do slip boxes deal with facts?

How to collect observations while reading

It is important to have both stubs and an inbox

It’s ok to demote or promote notes

Lessons learned from publishing ARPA Model

Making verbal arguments you haven’t written about is getting over your skis

Maybe notes should be discovery focused or invention focused or have parts for that

Shared premises are critical to debate

Sometimes you create a note that’s the secret note that connects all the other notes in a cluster in a really tight way but it took weeks of staring to understand what was in that negative space. Dark matter notes.

Try to put phrases shared by a bunch of note titles at the end instead of the beginning

What if you just synced the bear database with a server per that talk?

Zettlekasten notes can be isomorphic to presentation slides

# §Slipbox Systems
- [[Where are the lines between the slip box and resources?]]
- [[Try to put phrases shared by a bunch of note titles at the end instead of the beginning]]
- [[Zettlekasten notes can be isomorphic to presentation slides]]
- [[How to Take Smart Notes]]

## Backlinks
* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
	* Bloody statements are valuable to thinking and [[§Slipbox Systems]] notes in particular. Bloody statements are precise. [[Precise communication enables other people to make decisions]] and [[Precise communication can be refuted]]. Many topics are complicated and making statements as bloody as possible forces you to keep slicing a topic thinner and thinner until you have atomic pieces that you can be assertive about. This slicing is especially useful for notes because bloody note titles force you to make atomic notes.
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	* Doing the majority of the writing in Zettle form. [[§Slipbox Systems]] ftw
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* [[Notes and statements should be bloody]]
	* Bloody statements are valuable to thinking and [[§Slipbox Systems]] notes in particular. Bloody statements are precise. [[Precise communication enables other people to make decisions]] and [[Precise communication can be refuted]]. Many topics are complicated and making statements as bloody as possible forces you to keep slicing a topic thinner and thinner until you have atomic pieces that you can be assertive about. This slicing is especially useful for notes because bloody note titles force you to make atomic notes.
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[You can use a zettlekasten to explicitly interface with the emulations of people that you carry on your shoulder]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[Note titles that read as thoughts makes them more memorable, findable, and transmissible]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[Embedding note titles into prose enables precise thought]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[A ‘related’ section can serve as kindling for an evergreen note]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[How do slip boxes deal with facts?]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[It is important to have both stubs and an inbox]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[Lessons learned from publishing ARPA Model]]
	* Doing the majority of the writing in Zettle form. [[§Slipbox Systems]] ftw
* [[Maybe notes should be discovery focused or invention focused or have parts for that]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[Sometimes you create a note that’s the secret note that connects all the other notes in a cluster in a really tight way but it took weeks of staring to understand what was in that negative space. Dark matter notes.]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[Try to put phrases shared by a bunch of note titles at the end instead of the beginning]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[What if you just synced the bear database with a server per that talk?]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[Science fiction is a powerful tool for transmitting science or economic ideas]]
	* Ideas are carried on stories and feelings the way a coronavirus is carried on droplets of water, and most ideas from science and economics are exceedingly dry.  [[Stories are a powerful mechanism for idea transmission]].  I’m basically screwing up my own advice by writing this as notes instead of a story (although the linked-context of a Zettlekasten [[§Slipbox Systems]] serves much of the role of a story.) 
* [[Prose-based evergreen notes enable better thinking]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[What about fiction or analogy notes in a slip box system?]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[Could you build a community the same way you build a zettlekasten?]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[How to collect observations while reading]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[It’s ok to demote or promote notes]]
	* In a [[§Slipbox Systems]], after you label a note as a “stub” or “evergreen” there is often a lot of mental resistance to changing it unless you significantly change the note itself. It’s totally fine to look at a note with fresh eyes and reclassify it. Allowing yourself to incrementally change the system or criteria itself is important.
* [[Making verbal arguments you haven’t written about is getting over your skis]]
	* [[§Slipbox Systems]]
* [[Shared premises are critical to debate]]
	* Interestingly digital [[§Slipbox Systems]] may make it easier to establish shared premises. 



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# It’s expensive to experiment with brain-externalizing systems
For people who in part live in brain-externalizing systems (here we could be talking about Evernote, Roam etc but for many people it’s Excel, photoshop etc.) it really does require rewiring your brain to use a different tool. So it’s very hard to just ‘experiment’ with a new one. 

You also can’t really use more than one at any more time

### Related
* [[Where are the lines between the slip box and resources?]]
* [[The slip box is the platonic writing style]]
* [[How to Take Smart Notes]]
           


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# We are really bad at knowing the structure of our own minds and especially our future minds
That’s why [[it’s important to allow categories to emerge]] , 
[[The slip box is the platonic writing style]], and
[[Where are the lines between the slip box and resources?]]
Ref:
[[How to Take Smart Notes]]
          


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It’s expensive to experiment with brain-externalizing systems

We are really bad at knowing the structure of our own minds and especially our future minds

# Where are the lines between the slip box and resources?
# Where are the lines between the slip box and resources
On the one hand having it all in one place/system like Bear is useful 



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