It is not enough to have pages of concrete facts and pages of abstract concepts
#Scrapbox Best Practices
[/shokai/2 hop link](https://scrapbox.io/shokai/2 hop link) said
- Scrapbox can be fun if you consciously write two types of pages
- concrete fact
- abstract concept
- Existing technical terms
- Appropriate sentences that make it easy to recall the content
- Because it is easy to generate unexpected links of "concrete -> abstract -> concrete" and "abstract -> concrete -> abstract" by 2-hop links.
The occurrence of unexpected and surprising links (serendipity support) is one of the advantages of Scrapbox
- Use it as an "engine for generating new knowledge links" rather than a "warehouse of dead texts."
But the important point is not "there are pages of concrete facts and pages of abstract concepts".
I think it's how to give a title, how to make a page for an abstract concept.
Common behavior patterns
- Create pages for specific book A, book B, and book C = pages of specific facts
- Tag each page as "book" = abstract concept page.
This is a poor idea in terms of "creating serendipity."
For example, when I'm looking at a page of an economics book, I'm not happy to see a suggestion for a linguistics book because it's a book.
Why is it that this pattern is not good even though "create and link concrete and abstract pages" is satisfactory?
- The title of the abstract page is a tasteless "book"
- The concept of an abstract page doesn't sound particularly interesting.
- Are you really interested in the concept of "books"?
- If you put the tag
books' on each book page, you will see a list of those pages on the books' page."
- Are you really going to look at that page in the future?
- Too abstract of an abstract concept.
- Pattern on the right side of [Do not classify.
- I don't put a
book tag on the entire book. I use the author's name as a link, so if you look at Shigehiko Toyama page, his books and references to him appear in the link
- Abstract concept page is not recognized as a "page" and is thought of as a tag, so it is an empty page
How to make the abstract concept page "good" is important, but what that "good" is has not yet been verbalized.
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