Context

• you have wide/varied interests, and try to use Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and Recursive Writing/Thinking Out Loud to grow your own knowledge/understanding of various things over time. [New Page Idea]

  • at a given moment in time you may have a topic you are exploring deeply, while still skimming along on others (making brief notes as you come across interesting pieces from other people, for your own future reference)

Forces

• you don't have an immediate payback/deliverable associated with your writing, so an overly [Formal Process] isn't something you wish to follow.

• because of your Recursive Writing process, you want to keep thoughts relatively granular so they can related to each other in a network.

• you want to branch off new thoughts easily; you may think of some during creating/editing a given page, but not want to go off in that direction at the time

• or someone else may be inspired to branch off a new thought, in a shared environment.

Solution:

• have a writing system that makes the creation of new pages, and linking to existing pages, as simple as possible

• ideally, a system that allows some kind of Automatic Linking!

WiKi typically does this through the Smashed Together Words approach. You Link As You Think. Then you, or someone else, can spin off a new page without even editing the current page. (And the create-new-page link for each phrase missing a page is a form of inspiration/nudging.)

What other approaches to Automatic Linking might work?

• putting brackets around key phrases isn't bad, though Smashed Together Words is more likely to nudge you into picking a sufficiently short and reusable expression of your concept. Which will lead to greater Accidental Linking.

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Related: Page Name As Url, Wiki Word As Tag

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