recreate book with zettels

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one way to read and take note about books is to recreate the book with zettels

1. why it make sense

You can write a book with zettels, i.e. compiling zettels serially, it’s imperative that you can do the reverse.

This echos with the idea of understanding a topic being having an internel organization of ideas relating to the topic, which here represented with zettels.

This also echos with the idea of deserialization

2. notes

  • most times don’t need the full book zettelkasten – the zettelkasten which represents the whole book. only need parts, subgraphs of it.

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creative understanding

(primitives)

common and and intuitive way is to do discussion of this idea: writing definitions, proofs, tutorials, illustrations, teach it to someone else etc.

Another way of looking at it is to see the whole paper as a polished compilation zettel, copying each reference into the main text, then it is intuitive to recreate it with bunch of zettels

Author: Linfeng He

Created: 2024-04-03 Wed 23:16