There is a push towards Atomic notes as small pieces of discrete information which an erroneous simplification.1 Am I creating them to help me understand the world, or am I being too formal and setting them up duplicating what I know for others and breaking my rule to Don’t duplicate public knowledge?
Blog posts are writing, often without reference to earlier notes. I’m not pulling together notes into a single page—my definition of writing. Referring to notes for writing rarely occurs other than to check something I want to link to.
One of the issues I’m having with Atomic notes is their size. They are often too small to be useful and in often factual. With my field notes for Coaching to the Human Soul (Volume 1) I am often finding three notes of a sentence each, all interlinking. It’s an artefact of undeveloped thinking and assumption that a keyword is a concept is an atomic note. What is the essence of the idea rather than what is an idea named. Makes it harder to parse notes as well because so much work is generated with not that much thinking behind it.
Don’t forget writing for my Future self to explain what I’m thinking and why. Quite different from documenting what I know.
Does this conversation mean I’m increasing in my Mastery in this area?