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yes. both should work. in fact one flows into the other.

object oriented workflows and new search habits workflows synergy !screen

def would love your feedback on this at some point (no rush): good or bad

to add to that. i have some ideas still about spaced repetition. if we are going for a "pull" approach where we start a new thread each time based on what is top of mind and pulling things in, then we need a way of making sure that the questions and ideas that are top of mind match our goals and intentions weeks before. we need to not lose track of queries from one day to the other.

if i go on a tear in my research about secondary scholarship on an obscure tangent, time and reading will tell if that becomes relevant to me, but I don't want to forget that i did. i might want to forget for a week so i can focus on some other things but i want to be able to come back to it. if i don't know what to look for then it might not come back to me which is why linking in the zettelkasten is important but starts taking us back to object oriented approaches.

you could take a "what I remember is what I remember" and trust the "natural" filtering of our brain but that doesn't really work for me when i'm learning something hard like a language so i have to think that it's not the best for writing about hard things either. you have to have means of reinforcement.

this makes me think of an algorithmic resurfacing. even through like an email summary... or a generated srs stream... or even putting it into notis. #tol

another idea is to have the search happen without you having to press search... but that sometimes interrupts "focused writing mode" so there is a trade off

!screen important paradigms to take from supermemo. Reading and writing at the right time. structuring those decisions

i think the structure is important. I don't think I want to read on my computer that much. I'd prefer to read whole books visually where i can binge and see the shape of ideas at different levels. also just seeing the contours of paragraph structure is helpful for understanding and memory

i like the idea of having a personal assistant (me from the past) that is making suggestions to me in the moment. hey check out this. or hey focus on that. or hey, you think you want to read this next but you forgot that this is a high priority and is going to be due soon (etc).

all these ideas led me into messing way too much with emacs org mode.

Spaced repetition systems are "push based" and "object-oriented." This is handy for general learning or brute forcing learning, but is ultimately not as fun or efficient (especially if your goal is writing particular articles or solving particular problems). !video

What if I pull things into contexts? What kind of system accommodates contextual layers and rereading? drawing concentric circles. !video

Iterative rewriting instead of spaced repeating (rote). !video

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A practical methodology for thinking with a zettelkasten and spaced repetition. !video

day-to-day workflow. !video

calhistorian pedaogical context with examples from American history https://twitter.com/calhistorian/status/1355969187185709056

Stacking contexts can produce (reverse?) entropy bombs.

Stacking contexts is a tetris game

example of language learning flow. !screen