Slip-Box

#zettelkasten #ideas #writing #organization

  • Slip-box is place where you put your notes and organize them by index
  • The idea to have a Slip-box is to change you habits to take notes
  • Use the method Zettelkasten to understand about multiple topics and make any read not wasted of time creating multiple notes
  • Slip-Box is the place where we put our mental models, and our connections between our knowledge.
  • Try to think where new notes can be connected in the Slip-Box
  • It will help to develop ideas Develop Ideas
  • Slip-box are compound of multiple Permanent Notes
  • You never will have a overview of your Slip-box

Reference

Ahrens, 2017, 105-109

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  • Zettelkasten
    Use Slip-Box to store you more important notes that you write with your own words. There you develop not only connection between notes, but ideas and elaborate about it.
  • How to learn and understand
    Some ideas/questions can appear in the middle of research/findings of other ideas, you do not need to answer it right at the moment, store it on the Slip-Box.
    Slip-Box help to create distinctions between concepts and things in general using connections. Use it to answer the questions you have in mind.
    Slip-Box long-term memory, while brain takes care of creativity

    [!tip] Quote what does this all mean for my own research and the questions I think about in my Slip-Box? This is just another way of asking: Why did the aspects I wrote down catch my interest?

  • How to Take Smart Notes
    On your Slip-Box the notes are divided by context not by topics
    Only Permanent Notes are put in the Slip-Box.
    The Slip-Box becomes more valuable as more it increases its size with the number of notes.
  • How To Retrieve Information
    In the beginning the connection is scarcity, although after some time will be the first thing you will do on your Slip-Box
  • Handwriting with our words
    Write a text in our language, Literature Notes and Permanent Notes, is a way to fit something from other context into our own context inside the Slip-Box
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