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In this case, it's mostly about the additional perspectives on how learning works from the act of managing your information through various note-taking methods. I also restructured the note on org-babel and moved as its own note on the hierarchical notebook. I think summarizing a tool and giving my own comments about it is a nicer way of describing it. Plus, I can freely link between any other types of note so I figured it would be better. That said, I should be picky on how to make org-roam entries. And also org-roam v2 is better, after all. :)
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Prefer referencing over remembering
It makes for less cognitive overhead. This is especially true in the age of internet where information is widely distributed. Even without the internet, however, it is still useful to find ways to refer to things or store them locally whether by archiving or creating related notes.
This doesn't mean that you should avert remembering, that would be silly as little remembering is still required. You're still trying to understand a concept, after all. The gist of it is knowing the basics of a concept and its relations to others, enabling you to come up with a more effective search query. If nothing else, you could take advantage of the help system insisted by the tool.
Examples:
- On a Unix-based environment, for example, has the manual pages with
manand you can search throughapropos. This is especially needed if you're using BSD-based operating systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. - Texinfo and tldr pages.
- roam:GNU Emacs has a great built-in help system. (See Using the built-in help system of Emacs for more details.)
If the system has a way of referencing something (other than the internet), use it to your advantage as you may find something valuable.