It is not enough to have pages of concrete facts and pages of abstract concepts

• Having a Concrete Facts Page and Abstract Concepts Page is not enough #Scrapbox Best Practices

[/shokai/2 hop link](https://scrapbox.io/shokai/2 hop link) said

• Scrapbox can be fun if you consciously write two types of pages
  • concrete fact
  • abstract concept
    • Existing technical terms
    • Appropriate sentences that make it easy to recall the content
• Because it is easy to generate unexpected links of “concrete → abstract → concrete” and “abstract → concrete → abstract” by 2-hop links.

The occurrence of unexpected and surprising links (serendipity support) is one of the advantages of Scrapbox

• Use it as an “engine for generating new knowledge links” rather than a “warehouse of dead texts.”

But the important point is not “there are pages of concrete facts and pages of abstract concepts”. I think it’s how to give a title, how to make a page for an abstract concept.

Common behavior patterns

• Create pages for specific book A, book B, and book C = pages of specific facts
• Tag each page as “book” = abstract concept page. This is a poor idea in terms of “creating serendipity.” For example, when I’m looking at a page of an economics book, I’m not happy to see a suggestion for a linguistics book because it’s a book. Why is it that this pattern is not good even though “create and link concrete and abstract pages” is satisfactory?
• The title of the abstract page is a tasteless “book”
• The concept of an abstract page doesn’t sound particularly interesting.
  • Are you really interested in the concept of “books”?
  • If you put the tag books' on each book page, you will see a list of those pages on the books’ page.”
    • Are you really going to look at that page in the future?
    • Too abstract of an abstract concept. - Pattern on the right side of [Do not classify.
    • I don’t put a book tag on the entire book. I use the author’s name as a link, so if you look at Shigehiko Toyama page, his books and references to him appear in the link
• Abstract concept page is not recognized as a “page” and is thought of as a tag, so it is an empty page

How to make the abstract concept page “good” is important, but what that “good” is has not yet been verbalized.

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