On Monday, March 2, 2020 at 8:32:14 AM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: > > On Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 10:54:59 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: >> >> >> I think Zettelkasten people tend to say the automated UID system plus the >> tags system fulfills the purpose of this, but I don't think it does. ... >> The branched threads represented stepwise, connected thoughts, while the >> tags represented relationships not based in any way on sequence, but merely >> shared or related topics. He wanted both, plus he also had headings systems >> and index systems. >> > > I think we're not as far off as I have thought. Luhmann's numbering > system provided ordered, two-way connections. We are doing two-way links, > though not ordered, just as Luhmann's direct slip-to-slip links were not > ordered, afaik. I may need to provide literate/semantic ordering somehow > within the system we have, in place of (and possibly better than, if I can > do it well) a Luhmann-type numbering system. >
Luhmann wrote that the numbers were arbitrary, but that was not quite the case. A succeeding number usually indicated an extension of the though of its predecessor, or a new thought that had been triggered by it. In theory, these numbers wouldn't need to be related because links could serve that purpose. But this organization allows one to quickly find closely related thoughts and trains of thought. This property is called "co-location" in library science. For example, in a physical library you'd expect to find all the books on mountain climbing on the same section of shelves. We've got that by means of the Leo outline structure. The proximity and nesting of the Leo nodes fills exactly the same function. That's why I didn't try to add any structure to the zettel for this purpose. It just isn't needed. And you can always rearrange the outline any time you want. The links will still go to the right zettels. I've actually been making new organizing nodes contain the IDs, because I know from experience with my bookmarks manager that it can be useful to jump to headings instead of only to specific items. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/34124b90-1d6d-4a3e-adcb-2538486aac4e%40googlegroups.com.
