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March 20, 2023

ChatPDF is great but the toughest question won't be solved itself

底下有中文,不過是翻譯出來的哦。

I paid 5 USDs to subscribe the Plus plan of ChatPDF, to test if the book/author can really solve the implementation difficuties from the book's content. That is always a hard challenage to put concepts in book to actual actions, it always does not so easy and good like what the book said.

The book is "How to take Smart Notes". The bible of "Zettelkasten" methods to organize our notes.

Lots of people had described the core concept, but they all skipping the most difficult part of "link". That is, when we have a fleeting note, we should examine all of our permanent notes to see if there are any notes have connections/relations to the fleeting note.

But, if we have lots of permanent notes, they all have their contexts, keywords, connections with other notes, how would we know which permanent note should be the right one to be connected with this fleeting notes?

I have discussions and arguments with the chat bot several times, it faithfully responds possible answers/thoughts the author provided or avocated in this book, but it still can't solve the "How" questions. No matter the solution is by keywords, tags, unique numbers, etc. Those solutions all ask us to memory or browse another list to pick a right metadata to insert into the fleeting note, to expect that will help us to find the note or connections in the future.

That is the beautiful illustion of we can connect those notes/thoughts easily. Firstly, we will face lots of notes described the same concepts, you need to pick a right one between them. Secondly, if we awared that it is so hard to pick the right one, that is said that you have to insert more contexts about this fleeting note to figure out what is the exaclty difference or reason to connect permanent note A instead B. After we spent mental efforts to make the decision, congratulations, the difficulty of choosing the right permanent note of next fleeting note may be increased. Welcome to the real world.

The conclusion is just like the bot always said, there is no "right" way to organize your notes. We should always take the proper action to adapt the situation.


我支付了5美元訂閱了ChatPDF的Plus計劃,以測試這本書/作者是否能真正解決書中內容的實現困難。將書中的概念付諸實際行動總是一個艱鉅的挑戰,這總不像書中所述那麼容易和順利。

這本書名為《如何做聰明筆記》。這是關於使用“Zettelkasten”方法組織筆記的指南。

許多人都描述了核心概念,但他們都跳過了最困難的“鏈接”部分。也就是說,當我們有一個閃念筆記時,我們應該檢查所有的永久筆記,看看是否有任何筆記與這個閃念筆記有關聯。

但是,如果我們有很多永久筆記,它們都有自己的上下文、關鍵字和與其他筆記的關聯,我們如何知道哪個永久筆記應該與這個閃念筆記相連呢?

我與聊天機器人多次討論和爭辯,它忠實地回應了作者在這本書中提供或倡導的可能答案/想法,但它仍無法解決“如何”這個問題。無論解決方案是使用關鍵字、標籤、唯一編號等。這些解決方案都要求我們記憶或瀏覽另一個列表,從中選擇合適的元數據插入閃念筆記,期望這將幫助我們在未來找到筆記或關聯。

這是一個美麗的幻覺,即我們可以輕鬆地將這些筆記/想法連接起來。首先,我們將面對很多描述相同概念的筆記,你需要在它們之間選擇一個合適的。其次,如果我們意識到選擇合適的筆記是如此困難,那就意味著你必須插入更多有關閃念筆記的上下文,以弄清楚究竟為什麼將其與永久筆記A連接而不是B。在我們付出心力做出決定之後,恭喜你,下一個閃念筆記選擇合適永久筆記的難度可能會增加。歡迎來到現實世界。

因此,我們需要找到一個能夠解決這個問題的方法。可能的策略包括使用更高效的搜索工具、建立更為結構化的筆記系統以及將相關筆記分類以便更容易查找。然而,無論我們選擇哪種方法,都需要在過程中不斷改進和調整,以確保系統能夠持續地滿足我們的需求。

此外,對於一個成功的筆記系統來說,定期回顧和整理筆記至關重要。這可以幫助我們更好地瞭解筆記之間的關聯,並有助於保持筆記系統的整潔和高效。

總之,將筆記組織成一個高效且易於使用的系統是一個持續的挑戰。我們需要不斷尋求改進的方法,並根據自己的需求進行調整。雖然可能無法找到完美的解決方案,但通過努力和實踐,我們可以使筆記系統變得更加有用和高效。

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