As you create and link your notes together, you start to see relationships and patterns emerge. By linking related notes, you can discover new insights or perspectives that you won't be able to with linear note taking: ![[Ultimate Primer 2 - The Humble Note Can Be a Time Machine#^4k22ge]] Linking your notes is the process of [[Thinking]]. You [[Learn something new by connecting it to something that you already know]]. This lets us [[Compound knowledge with conceptual notes]] I usually have a [[Bottom-Up Thinking]] style. I distill a note into it's key concepts, then connect them up to their related topics, which is outlined in [[Idea Emergence]]. ## Strategies [[Compass Zettelkasten Thinking]] [[Note-making]] [[RRR Note-Making Method]] ## Criticisms [[Danny Hatcher]] claims you don't need to connect the parts through digital links and notes because they are already connected in your primary brain. I would argue though that the brain is not perfect and just externalizing it in another medium beyond