This just appears to be a new buzzwordy name for mindmaps?
That's exactly what this is.
Beginner's Guide to the Flow Notes Method
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#12Methods like this require a good degree of design sense.
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?
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#13It’s rubbish. Here’s the important sentence that is hand-waved away:
> 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.
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#14Basically Org-roam https://www.orgroam.com/
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#15It’s rubbish. Here’s the important sentence that is hand-waved away: > 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.
Good quote. Many business slides look like this: boxes with words connected with arrows; no edge labels.
Their authors revel in magical thinking, enjoying simplicity of unlabeled axes. But everybody interested in content must struggle to figure out which arrows even have the same meaning, and what that meaning is.
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#16Maybe I'm wrong and if this helps people thats great, but this seems like its making a system out of something that doesn't need to be a system.
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.