More efficiency and productivity through process support

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The flow is a mental state of complete immersion and complete absorption in an activity. ThinkTank wants to establish this state in the user with regard to the development and curation of their Zettelkasten.

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The inbox lists notes that need revision and integration into their Zettelkasten. It also lists your inbox sources, behind which other notes can be hidden.
We also list titles and summaries that are too long, as we believe that they disturb your reading flow. Try to make them more compact.

ThoughtTank analyses your notes and gives concrete advice on how you can further develop or improve your notes in the next step.

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Thought Tank features to build well documented and connected thought

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feature method

entrypoint

ThoughtTank creates a methodological framework that supports the construction of interconnected knowledge. This is done through feature selection and specific instructions for creating notes.

Possibly related Notes

Manage the flow of notes for continuous curration of the Zettelkasten

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capture flow process

note-property

We use Flow tags to mark different processing states of notes and support the capture and editing process.

Capture your thoughts whereever you are

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capture floating-notes flow inbox

writing

In ThoughtTank, inbox sources give users an overview of places where they might have collected new ideas in the past. You should integrate these into your Zettelkasten.

Process support in place of self-discipline

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process self-disciplin

luhmann

Luhmann’s self-discipline in the care of a zettelkasten is replaced by ThoughtTank in parts by guidelines, method and process support.

Route of information from the text read into the zettelkasten

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capture memory process reading workflow

Reading writing

A separate and established reading workflow supports the systematic and efficient Anchoring of information in long-term memory and might be a Process support in place of self-discipline.

Quickly get to the core of a thought

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summary what

writing

For this purpose the author describes in the summary WHAT the thought means for the user or a discussed topic.

Transformation of implicit into explicit relationships between notes generate knowledge

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knowledge-generation linking related-notes

By identifying related notes that are not explicitly linked, ThoughtTank encourages you to explicitly link these notes. Making relationships explicit generates new knowledge.

Importance of a note is proportional to the number of notes that reference it

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importance linking

note-property

Link a new note from existing notes when creating it.

Context-independent understandable notes

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context independency

note-property

Enter a note in such a way that it is understandable in itself and that the information it contains depends at most on the explicit links and not on an implicit context.

Unambiguousness of links

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atomacity linking unambiguousness

note-property

Links are only unambiguous if each note contains exactly one idea or thought (atomacity).

2020-05-21

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This is my father day entry. The first entry that should be detected as a diary entry.

References

Wikipedia: Flow (Definition)
In positive psychology, a flow state, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one’s sense of time.