> Turning a spark (idea) into remarks (connections and relations)
Similar ideas include:
- Elaboration
- Elaborative interrogation
Notemaking is intentionally practicing and refining [[Sensemaking]]:
![[I Don't Believe You + a Blank Ideaverse Is Coming#^xs9p8r]]
- If we only continue highlighting, our own internal sparks will fade.
- [[Difference between note-taking and note-making]]
- Much like how we give prompts to ChatGPT for a response, we will be using reflection questions for guidance to come up with our own answers
- Trains your [[Critical Thinking]] by allowing your thinking to explore new connections for [[Making connections between notes]]
- [[Visual PKM]] can be where you think?
- Information is stored in the notes, but to actually practice your cognition by forming more nuanced relationships, that is where you turn to visual mediums, to form relationships and develop a better understanding beyond just the 2D of text?
Through this, we get to go beyond the objectivity of [[Propositional knowing]], to dive more into our unique [[Perspectival knowing]]
## How
### Prompts
From [[Linking Your Thinking]]:
- If it could, `topic` would shout
- What is really about? It is about `topic`, but it is really about …
- What did this teach me?
- What insight can I teach?
- Do I agree or disagree (and why?!)
- What's interesting to someone just starting out?
- What actionable tips and tricks can I share?
- From [[Notemaking Mastery]]
- It's interesting or important because…
- Personal significance based on our [[Salience landscape]]
- It's about X, but it's really about Y…
- Getting closer to reality and underlying themes that connect it with universal topics
- It reminds me of, it relates me to
- Helps promote connectedness
### Process
- Environment
- Try to not go online so you are only pulling from your own thoughts
- Have an initial stimulus like a prompt, insightful highlight, or existing [[Evergreen Notes]] to help you
#### During
- [[Hmm Because]]
- [[RRR Note-Making Method]]
- [[Making connections between notes]] for [[Conceptual notes]]
- Choose a [[My Maps of Content (MOCs)]] to start working on that has lots of notes pointing to it
### Post
- After the session, link the ideas you just thought about to other related ideas in your vault
- Would giving it a name better help me understand it?
- Concept handles are frameworks to help us understand things better
- Structure should be earned - do not quickly go about making structures, do it after you take notes
## Live workshop
During the live [LYT sensemaking session](https://youtu.be/twxlov8TCe8), these were my responses to the mentioned topics.
### Kintsugi
Important since it can relate to the idea of [[Antifragile]], how things benefit from chaos
- Reminds me of the [[Synthesizer]] ideology, in a sense when you add that gold patch it becomes something new and unique
- It's good because you are retaining and honoring the previous history but still transforming it into something new and useful
### AI
- AI is interesting since we can offload dull and repetitive tasks
- Prevents innovation since the AI will return answers based on the average information it has been trained on
- It's important because it will only heighten the importance of good thinkers that can think outside the box and the norm
- It's bad because people might turn to these as truth and will neglect their own critical thinking
- Similar to asking people for advice and for herd mentality as we follow the norm
## Queries
### To Develop 🌱
```dataview
list from #note/🌱 AND !"Hidden"
where contains(Links, this.file.link)
sort file.mtime desc
```
### Notes 📝
```dataview
list from [[]] AND !outgoing([[]]) AND !#input AND !#thought AND !"Hidden"
sort file.mtime desc
```
### Inputs 📥
```dataview
table Tags as Type, Links, Created
from [[]] AND #input AND !"Hidden" AND !outgoing([[]])
sort file.mtime desc
```
### Thoughts 💭
```dataview
table Created
from [[]] AND #thought AND !"Hidden" AND !outgoing([[]])
sort file.mtime desc
```