[minhmeoke]

It might also be a good idea to distill transient notes down into evergreen notes to refine and review knowledge: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes

This is a great way to refine your ideas before you write and makes it easier to develop the outline as an assembly of different notes that you already have.

An Executable Strategy for Writing: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z3PBVkZ2SvsAgFXkjHsycBeyS6Cw...

The main insights for me were: - Using notes as a way to organize one's writing (by assembling ideas together into an outline, then filling out the details) to avoid writer's block. - Creating "logs" around concepts that extract useful ideas from ephemeral observations and distill concrete insights over time. - Using an "inbox" of new ideas as a way to focus attention and perform spaced repetition of concepts. - Organizing notes via tags, backlinks, and associations/outlines rather than as a hierarchy. - Incrementally iterating on atomic concept notes to form larger chunks in memory which allows thinking about more complex ideas and recognizing patterns.

[itsmemattchung]

While I still do create "atomic notes" in my slip box and approach writing using a bottom up approach advocated by Zettelkaten professionals and enthusiasts, I no longer exclusively use this technique. I approach my writing not only bottom up, but top down. For me, the problem is—and has always been—with atomic notes is while its easy to create little, bite-sized notes, the problem (again: for me) that I accumulate a pile of notes, independent notes that have no connections to one another: no coherent web of thoughts.