Capture your thoughts whereever you are

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While working with ThoughtTank, ideas are created by linking to ideas already captured. New ideas, on the other hand, are usually created outside the system when working with other systems. These systems often provide much better mechanisms for capturing ideas. The user should collect them there regularly and integrate them into his or her Zettelkasten.

Examples:

  • Storage for newspaper clippings with markers

  • Notebook (physical or virtual)

  • Dictation function in the smartphone

  • Pocket for filing and marking on websites

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.

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Thought Tank features to build well documented and connected thought

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

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Manage the flow of notes for continuous curration of the Zettelkasten

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

More efficiency and productivity through process support

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

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
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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
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Link a new note from existing notes when creating it.

Context-independent understandable notes

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context independency
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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
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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.

What makes ThoughtTank special

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