> When you find connections between something earlier to what is being said now, use arrows or lines to connect them.
Relations across context and meaning are not trivial.
For those interested, it's basically just teaching concept (writing an article, talking to someone, etc.), usually after having studied it/taken notes. The idea is that teaching a concept, even to an imaginary audience, forces you to learn it on a fundamental level:
When I take notes, I'll write something out, then if I think of something that expands upon it, or a potential problem, I'll draw an arrow to the next line (or if the page is becoming full, to somewhere else) and write my new thing there. Sometimes it'll work like a strange Q&A where I write something, ask a question about it, answer it, and so on, with lines displaying the flow, but not always. All that sounds somewhat similar to these "Flow Notes", though a lot less organised.
The important thing is that I never decided to do this. I just did. And sometimes I don't and I just write normally, or sometimes a combination of the two. I can't say how much it helps me to reread my notes, I moreso take notes to think things through or get them out of my head than to keep a constant memory of them. But it works for me.
For people without that (me), analog mind mapping quickly falls apart and I’m left with a mess and feeling bewildered. (pepesilva.jpg). The focus then becomes redoing the shit I have on the page.
Could argue that this is a form of progressive summerization, but I’m often just wondering why I didn’t use something like Smart Notes with Roam.
Any folks who are shit at drawing get methods like this to work?
> Flow-based note-taking is one of the best ways to consume content meant for learning.
What about PQ4R, Cornell, … ?
