Properly linking notes to reinforce what you learn and generate new ideas

When you have finished writing a permanent note, you have to go through your Zettlekasten to properly connect that note to the other ones that you have. With this, you reinforce the connection with other different pieces of knowledge and you make easier to generate new ideas and help your brain to make connections.

Nonetheless, it is very, very important to give context when you add a reference to another note, primary because of two things:

• You help your future self, as the connection may be clear when you make the note but cannot be true when rereading a note.
• You don’t generate knowledge, you just gather facts and information together. Context helps with the creation of relationships between notes, therefore helps the creation of new knowledge.

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