Permanent notes

Everyday you should go through your inbox and seek to refine the [[Fleeting notes]] & [[Literature notes]] that you've taken. Making connections and turning them into permanent notes.

Ideally this should happen roughly everyday so that you don't forget the conceptual ideas behind the notes.

Developing > Collecting

Your [[Zettelkasten]] isn't just for collecting all of your ideas, it is meant to develop your ideas and help expand your understanding. When you add a new permanent note there are a number of things you need to think about:

• Whether it
  • contradicts;
  • corrects;
  • supports;
  • or adds to what you've got in both your [[Zettelkasten]] and your mind?
• Can you combine ideas to generate something new?
• What questions are triggered by them?

These are important questions to answer as if you ignore them you will end up with a [[Zettelkasten]] that is lacking these kind of horizontally generated ideas.

One idea = One note

One note = One idea

Your permanent notes should only encompass a single idea, so as not to cause overlapping which will cause issues when you try to piece together your permanent notes into a whole piece of content.

Rules for a permanent note:

• One idea
• Full sentences
• Disclose sources
• Make references
• Try to be as
  • precise;
  • clear;
  • and brief as you can be.