My Organizational Structure
Reorganizing My Organizational Structure
Introduction
The way that I internalize information is troubled. Sometimes I don't want to read anymore because I feel like I know enough already (I don't) and I am overwhelmed by the new information that could possibly be presented to me. I hate it. I need to find a better way. For a certified yapper like me, there must be a better way.
This is what is essentially a schema-miss, but in the learning way.
Here is the documented search for the BETTER WAY, and of course there is always better, in my own Fitness Landscape I'm just looking for my own local optimum, understanding the global optimum is probably far out of reach.
Where I'm at currently
I find this page where I am. And that is at a point of where I use Obsidian and create something of a huge exterior brain quite literally named Gabriel's Brain, with excessive categorization Deep Storage and RAM are what I named my two categories. For so long I shunned even broaching the topic of note-taking as I was originally taught to simply recopy whatever was on the board. Of course with the correct abbreviations and whatever allows us to recopy quickly. There were classes you'd walk out and your wrist would ache. Soon enough I'd just sleep through the classes and my pages would look something like this.
There was no real teaching of how to journal, how to take notes, how to exercise your mind in a way that could be raw and finalized later. Since paying attention and turning in drafts didn't end up all that bad for me, I figured that I could just do that for the rest of my academic career and I'll be fine. It worked out.
Since then I've learned a whole lot of new ways to take notes and gotten feedback from others who carry an everything journal. I myself have a memo pad I take everywhere. They need to be sewed or stapled, as glue bound pages always rip off, and I do love when they flip up.
As for what I have with obsidian: I intend on having some local model run through my past notebooks and organizing it accordingly
Some passing thoughts include how I want to type faster, I will type faster and I am taking steps to actively type faster. What also helps is practicing touch typing properly so that as I work every day, that I will touch type more and more. We can only go up from here.
What most fits how I work now
Doing some immediate research. I am absolutely unable to be patient, so as it happens I love to read! Woah who would have guessed. I stumbled on Zettelkasten which seems to fit what I do already. I didn't even seek to find this, where I was originally simply looking on how to rename my files on obsidian without having a major headache.
Some elements I found especially useful were how to structure Zettels. How to make my notes all follow some sort of naming convention, aka identities, and how to get rid of categories. This last one hurts
What I have been developing, and the direction in which I am growing?
I really FUCKING love this structure. There are so many thoughts that I cannot quite connect, and I think that theres really no other way for me to organize than using this.
It just fits literally every concept I could possibly think of. and it follows my thought process perfectly.
Especially whenever I need to reference things and parts of my mind. I think pushing this to a blog format would be of such HUGE benefit for myself There is so much Inspiration to draw from, and I am in complete awe of the people who made my workflow possible. We really do build on the backs of giants.
Some steps I've taken this further.
Understandably there are hints of my life where I am completely unhinged, or rather just out there. My thoughts race and I can't quite keep up with them, though every second that I take, and use these moments to catalogue my many thoughts and actions. Essentially taking snapshots of my Schema with every word. Then I can put my brain at ease and just leave it there for future me to reference or understand.
Anyways, of course we now have Large Language Models and other forms of Deep learning, or AI that we can use to understand ours and other people's schemas. Thankfully, or honestly it has been a trip, we can use those Large Language Models to Schema Switch, and develop personal connections to all these other ideas. It's absolutely fantastic. And it gets especially interesting when you use it to figure out how to explain someone else's Schema in your own terms and understanding. In my case it's been essential for understanding concepts and my own Schema. So what have I been doing:
Feed Claude Your Notes
I've undergone this experiment, where of course, at my request and as I get to choose which notes to upload, I like to have claude read through them and then predict how I would respond, see what is missing and how I would actually respond. It's like a Loss Functions for my own Personalized Claude instance. It's absolutely fucking fantastic.
Some great documents have come out of this. Some that I generated, and some that I wrote myself.
We have especially:
Claude Generated - Chaining Schmitt Triggers - Extended Memory and Signal Processing Which explains in the way that I am most likely to understand, the chaining of Schmitt triggers, and how they use Hysteresis to