Structuring information with links

• Structuring information with links is not “structuring information with layered structure”.

• The author didn’t understand it at first, but it’s not “structuring information through tagging” either.

• Scrapbox’s information structuring mechanism is somewhat different from what we are used to. It is better to think so first.

  • Otherwise, they will try to stratify or pre-tag

• The link can be summed up in one word: “suggestion.” - mind-map Relationships such as “B appears after A when you are running strokes in [mind-map

  • A relationship in which topic B comes up after topic A when you are having a casual conversation with another person.
  • Relationships such as when you are working on a presentation material and after mentioning topic A, you want to mention B.

• Scrapbox is a good tool for describing this relationship

• You may link to a page that does not yet exist.

  • If you think, “I’d like to refer to XXX from this article,” you can put a link to XXX at that point.

• There is no need to have a description of the relationship when writing

  • If you’re reading page A again and think, “I’d like to touch on the topic of page B from this topic,” you can link to it then.
  • Or if you’re writing page B and you associate it with page A, you can link to it then.
  • The link is always bidirectional, and the linked page will also indicate that it is linked.
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• As this process is repeated, a network of information connected by associative links gradually grows.

• In addition to the human’s realization that “Oh, I want to touch on the topic of page B from this topic,” there is also a way to write a sentence and then make a link to words that seem important in that sentence.

• In this case, it will usually be a red “unconnected link,” but if the same word happens to be a link on another page, it will appear in the associative display at the bottom of the page.

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• I wrote that it is usually an “unconnected link”.

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  • The term “link” can easily be misinterpreted as “linking something to something else” at the time of its birth.
  • Rather, it is an image of “a door that may be connected to something in the future.

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