Miles (1905) has some interesting things to say with respect to collecting, “business-like brevity” (aka atomic notes), annotations for thinking/arranging/marking cards, summarizing, etc.

Miles, Eustace Hamilton. How to Prepare Essays, Lectures, Articles, Books, Speeches and Letters, with Hints on Writing for the Press. London: Rivingtons, 1905. http://archive.org/details/howtoprepareessa00mileuoft.

Especially interesting: Chapter XXIV The Card-System.

Published by

Chris Aldrich

I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

3 thoughts on “”

  1. Another great find. Thanks!

    Reading the card system chapter makes me think it must have been easier to learn these methods directly in person than from a book. For example, the sugggestion of using symbols on the top corner of the cards is intriguing, but I don’t find it obvious how you’d use them.

    Also, this is further confirmation that Luhmann’s approach to linking notes by means of a unique reference ID (a kind of proto-hyperlink) wasn’t common. This book doesn’t mention the possibility.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *