It is easy to imagine a paper notebook that cannot be searched

  • I’ve worked so hard to write down all this information, and I’ve accumulated so many notebooks!” and bragging about it.
  • Information is accumulating.
  • How often is this information retrieved?
  • Sometimes associations connect.

Electronic notes are a little better thanks to search.

  • (Only if you can put the written string in the exact search keywords.
    • Often slightly shaky notation and missing.
  • (and only if there are not too many hits for that keyword to be listed)

What is useful

  • For every new idea X, it is good to find a past idea that is related to it

  • This is “suggestion

  • A system in which associations are connected rather than explicit keyword searches, etc., is useful.

  • Stock of associations

(1.1.1) Information gathering

(1.1.2) Modeling and abstraction


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