How would you describe the difference between a zettlekasten structure and what thebrain does?
One thing I did notice with thebrain is that the structures tend to go wildly sideways very quickly. I don’t know if that was a side effect of how the data I saw was being entered or if that’s just the way that thebrain works, but I’d think we should want our trees to look like a healthy blue spruce or live oak, not the Charlie Brown tree, whatever the case is.
I’ll try to look more into some data visualization and mining methods.
With things like thebrain, you have to hand-stitch everything together. It's somewhat useful if actually diagnosing linear events, or construction/engineering processes, since those are often static.
With zettle-like notetaking, you may find connections between things that you normally wouldn't think to link together, or not spend the time hand-stitching together.
I was once doing a completely isolated dive into homeopathy and the way it seems to interact with water structure an the molecular level. I realized this tied in with certain atomic crystaline geometries, so without distracting myself from the specific research I was doing at the moment, I simply added a tag to my other research: something like #crystals #salts #zeolites #quantumchemistry #electro-biology for instance
Later, when viewing "the graph" (which is the auto-organized linkages between notes, I could see and also recall there was a connection between those two seemingly discrete areas of interest. This "short circuit" allows me to expand thinking and find connections between things without the need to hand-build a structure.
The best use case for thebrain, imo, in this field of conspiracy research, would be to linearly depict and annotate event sequences. A sequence of q-proofs, or the way uranium one played out, or the timeline of earth history, financial history, etc. Those things are suited for static tree graphs since the events themselves are static in time.
The main issue with thebrain and static note structures, is that you may end up determining there's more connections to add to the graph, that interlink in inextricable ways, which makes it confoundingly difficult to try and hand-organize. Instead, a solution would be to have a "cloud" of notes, and then ask the cloud what's related to q, or money, or what x politician has been related to. This will then automatically draw the connections, allowing you to learn more from your own research in unforseen ways.
As an aside, it works exceptionally well for keeping track of posts/news pieces that are interesting but seemingly disconnected. I may find a good GAW post that has it's own way of describing how the Fed and Titanic are related, so I'll save that link into the zettle, along with tags of #fed #titanic #(names of those onboard). Later, I may one day make another note about those names that were onboard. Instead of reacting like "hmm, where have I heard that name before?" I can see that the name links back to the post. Now connections start to appear!
Let's say as another example: I create a note or series of notes for every mass shooting that has taken place, as they come up. I can now, in the future after taking said notes, say "show me mass shootings" and it'll bring up all of those notes that I took, which now I can use to see similarities or differences, again, without having to manually add or remove them from lists.
Here's an example of a logseq graph, any one of these nodes can be clicked on to show a sidebar of the page/note, and it will also show direct and indirect connections
How would you describe the difference between a zettlekasten structure and what thebrain does?
One thing I did notice with thebrain is that the structures tend to go wildly sideways very quickly. I don’t know if that was a side effect of how the data I saw was being entered or if that’s just the way that thebrain works, but I’d think we should want our trees to look like a healthy blue spruce or live oak, not the Charlie Brown tree, whatever the case is.
I’ll try to look more into some data visualization and mining methods.
With things like thebrain, you have to hand-stitch everything together. It's somewhat useful if actually diagnosing linear events, or construction/engineering processes, since those are often static.
With zettle-like notetaking, you may find connections between things that you normally wouldn't think to link together, or not spend the time hand-stitching together.
I was once doing a completely isolated dive into homeopathy and the way it seems to interact with water structure an the molecular level. I realized this tied in with certain atomic crystaline geometries, so without distracting myself from the specific research I was doing at the moment, I simply added a tag to my other research: something like #crystals #salts #zeolites #quantumchemistry #electro-biology for instance
Later, when viewing "the graph" (which is the auto-organized linkages between notes, I could see and also recall there was a connection between those two seemingly discrete areas of interest. This "short circuit" allows me to expand thinking and find connections between things without the need to hand-build a structure.
The best use case for thebrain, imo, in this field of conspiracy research, would be to linearly depict and annotate event sequences. A sequence of q-proofs, or the way uranium one played out, or the timeline of earth history, financial history, etc. Those things are suited for static tree graphs since the events themselves are static in time.
The main issue with thebrain and static note structures, is that you may end up determining there's more connections to add to the graph, that interlink in inextricable ways, which makes it confoundingly difficult to try and hand-organize. Instead, a solution would be to have a "cloud" of notes, and then ask the cloud what's related to q, or money, or what x politician has been related to. This will then automatically draw the connections, allowing you to learn more from your own research in unforseen ways.
Which then, as I mentioned in this reply can be used to support a thesis or create a piece of useful content.
As an aside, it works exceptionally well for keeping track of posts/news pieces that are interesting but seemingly disconnected. I may find a good GAW post that has it's own way of describing how the Fed and Titanic are related, so I'll save that link into the zettle, along with tags of #fed #titanic #(names of those onboard). Later, I may one day make another note about those names that were onboard. Instead of reacting like "hmm, where have I heard that name before?" I can see that the name links back to the post. Now connections start to appear!
Let's say as another example: I create a note or series of notes for every mass shooting that has taken place, as they come up. I can now, in the future after taking said notes, say "show me mass shootings" and it'll bring up all of those notes that I took, which now I can use to see similarities or differences, again, without having to manually add or remove them from lists.
Here's an example of a logseq graph, any one of these nodes can be clicked on to show a sidebar of the page/note, and it will also show direct and indirect connections
:) man I love your zeal..keep it up fren.
They’ve trapped us in this huge web of data. For some reason the idea of flipping tables and surfacing truth to drive out defilers seems great!
Wow what an excellent way to phrase that. It's a beautiful call to action.
We definitely have the people to make this happen..now we just gotta figure out the how. It will for sure be worth it in the end though
…So of course we got hit by project deadlines, heavy storm damage, and long term sickness lol