How I take notes

When I’m taking some notes on something, I kind of do it like this:

• Write a few sentences on what I already think about it first, before reading anything specifically elsewhere.
• The ‘subjective’ view: see what’s been written on it by people I already have a mental model of. Probably quote a bunch from these.
  • Friends/comrades: check in Anagora, see what’s been written there
  • ‘Mentors’: [[Free, Fair and Alive]] / https://patternlanguage.commoning.wiki / [[Lean Logic]]
  • Counterpoints: not sure where to get these from in garden form right now, but basically people I know will probably not agree. Posting on social media is usually a good way of getting some antithesis action.
• The ‘objective’ view: Wikipedia.
  • Maybe quote a bit just for understanding, but not too much from here. No point trying to recreate an objective view.
• Synthesis
  • Actually - just leave it there if time’s up for now. That’s fine. Can come back to it.
  • Otherwise, try and synthesise it to understand.

Thinking about this, I want certain circles/groupings of people. e.g. for politics I’d probably go to FFA, P2P wiki, some peeps on Anagora, etc

For other stuff (let’s say knowledge management), I’d probably go to [[Phil Jones]], [[Bill Seitz]], some Anagora peeps, etc