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How do you organize resources for a given topic? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am researching a few topics, like AI and work from home, and I am trying to figure out what system would be best. E.g., I may find some news articles, or journal papers, or reports, and so on, on a topic I am interested in. One option would be to create a note with the topic name, say "AI, and then just put the links into the note, maybe separating them with headers. Would it work or is there a better way? I was also thinking about a kanban board, but not sure if it is worth the trouble. Anyway, I would appreciate your tips!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Sorry for my english. Here's what i usually do:

kanban as read-list and task tracking
introductive note to a topic with backlinks to other notes (subtopics)
a directory with all the subtopics notes, backlink to index note.

I don't like atomic notes or Zetelkastenn methods enough, but be sure to check these methods. If you're more visual, then you may use the canva plugin.

The best system is subjective, try different things and find what works for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for sharing your experience! May I ask a bit further? So how do individual sources (say, a news article) are represented in the vault? As individual notes? Do you organize those materials on the topic somehow? E.g, news, reports, etc?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes sure! For your first question, it depends on the source, for example a book or a paper usually is a note because i like to resume or quote interestings idea or discoverings from them. Blog posts and news rarely are notes but usually they're put at the bottom of a note or link with title or one-two line description.

Books, video essays and so on are located inside a directory of resources. I usually add these resource notes as additional sources at the bottom of the topic notes, and/or quote what I find interesting fron the source.

Every note in my vault is tagged, this helps to find "hidden" connections between notes. As said before, not using systems like atomic/evergreen notes with strong atomization of content, full text search is essential for retrieving in my system. I use different vaults only if I need a strong separation between content, for example I have one for study/work, one for more intimate and general purpose stuff and one for preparing DnD campains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much for a detailed reply. This helps a lot. Tagging is another thing I’m trying to figure out.