Man, if I kept every single iteration of every little thought, so that for every little thing I can see the path of thinking between version X and version Y ... way too heavy to carry all of that around.
Between the choices of all or nothing, I think I'd prefer nothing. The "all" turns into information hoarding: I must keep every little thing and every version of that thing in case I need it someday. Bleurk. There are some things that may be worth keeping "milestone" versions of. But every version? Maybe for some really critical things, but I can't imagine any such scenario for myself. The thing with the need to keep every iteration of a note: you then kind of need to keep every iteration of related notes too. Otherwise, the memory of that note at a particular point in time might be missing some pieces. Unless you keep all of the pieces in the one note, which is crappy for information componentization <https://blog.okfn.org/2007/04/30/what-do-we-mean-by-componentization-for-knowledge/> and totally conflicts with the philosophy and benefits of tiddlers (i.e. keep them suckers focused, light, agile.) I say all of that, I don't ever get into thoughts akin to: back in 1986, seems to me somebody said something to me that shaped the way of thinking I have today. Now where is the note that reminds me who said what and where, and where is the chain of notes that together shaped this silly way of thinking I have today. If I really needed a perfect snapshot in time for everything, I might archive daily versions of entire TiddlyWiki instances. BLEURK. A good enough solution, to me, would involve just annotating/adorning a Tiddler with change log entries of significant milestone changes, little breadcrumbs that would remind me of what the heck I was thinking at some particular moment. No way would I bother doing that for every thought. Huh. I re-read all of my gibberish, and I imagine a large plate of spaghetti and meat balls flung at a wall. Kind of all over the place ... On Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 4:18:48 PM UTC-3 Si wrote: > I just came across this post: https://thesephist.com/posts/inc/, and it > challenges a lot of my own views on effective note-taking practices, so I > thought it was worth sharing here. > > The author advocates for a kind of chronological system, where as a rule > notes are never updated after they are made, meaning that they retain a > fixed position in time. It kind of reminded me of Soren's random thoughts: > https://randomthoughts.sorenbjornstad.com/ > > Anyway this approach seems completely counter to my current approach to > note-taking, where I want my notes to represent ideas that I am building > over time with little regard to where or when they originally came from. > > I'm not particularly convinced, but I'm curious if anyone here has any > thoughts? Do you see any advantages to this approach? Disadvantages? Do you > think it could gel with the zettelkasten philosophy, or are they polar > opposites? > > Just interested in hearing other peoples thoughts. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/69e88278-1984-4c69-9f5e-7f6760cb29cen%40googlegroups.com.
