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.
EDIT: “The Card System” is chapter XXXIV (not XXIV). Ya slippin’, Chris!
What a great find. Thanks.
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.