Kinds of Notes
Notes can generally be divided into three broad categories:
- Structural Notes: Outlines made during Inspectional Reading.
- Conceptual Notes: Observations made in the process of Analytical Reading.
- Dialectical Notes: Comments on the shape of discussion engages in by all relevant authors during Syntopical Reading.
Adler’s categories of note types listed above applies cleanly to the Antinet Zettlekasten workflow. The Bibcards used in Luhmmann’s system can be described as Structural, the individual zettles themselves as Analytical, and the Antinet as a whole (including one’s own notes and comments scattered throughout) are Dialectical in nature.
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) Zettlekasten Antinet Zettlekasten How to read a book by Mortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Van Doren Obsidian