@online{paxFleetingNotesVs2021,
  title = {Fleeting Notes vs Literature Notes vs Permanent Notes},
  author = {Pax, Prakash Joshi},
  date = {2021-09-07T18:01:25},
  url = {https://beingpax.medium.com/fleeting-notes-vs-literature-notes-vs-permanent-notes-d44364fe5fe7},
  urldate = {2022-12-24},
  abstract = {Understand the difference to help you leverage the power of the Zettelkasten system},
  langid = {english},
  organization = {{Medium}},
  keywords = {read},
  file = {/home/dominikh/notes/pdfs/paxFleetingNotesVs2021.html}
}

Literature notes ¶

• Take literature notes whenever consuming content. Blogs, videos, papers, anything.
• Don’t copy, use own words
• Be selective, only write down things that will be useful in the future
• keep bibliographical details
• exist to aid in writing permanent notes

Permanent notes ¶

• are written from fleeting notes and literature notes, ideally once a day
• literature notes are written in the context of the author’s thoughts, our interpretation of them
• permanent notes are written from our perspective, linking information to our own ideas and thoughts
• do we agree/disagree with the author, can we link it with existing ideas of our own or others, does the material raise questions
• Fleeting notes and literature notes are for us, while permanent notes are supposed to be readable by others
  • they should be atomic, written in prose, precise and understandable by an outside audience

Questions I had while reading ¶

• Can we write permanent notes more often?
• Are literature notes and fleeting notes allowed/meant to link to other notes?
  • they do in our case
• Do we delete literature notes after we’ve written permanent notes?
  • this article doesn’t say