- What are outlines good for?
- Capturing thoughts quickly
- Writing non-linearly
- Roughly organizing your thoughts
- Deciding depth and coverage
- Rearranging them for a more logical flow
- Writing quickly
- Picking things up where you left off
- Seeing the gaps
- Simplifying
- Different types of outlines I’m interested in
- The outline for a single thought
- Key point
- Supporting points
- Organizing any research, observations
- Flow
- See what doesn’t fit (focus, length) - stash in snippet
- Transforming the outline into text
- Practice: check flow, try permutations
- Reverse outlines
- My own
- Revising
- Picking out key points in the middle of prose
- Org Mode
- Dissecting other people’s work
- My own
- Outlines for linking posts or making summaries
- Challenges
- Building on previous knowledge, no need to restate everything
- Different levels of writing
- Like writing a program with functions
- Related posts
- Practice:
- Manually recommend more related posts based on index and memory
- Write other-oriented posts that summarize
- Challenges
- Outlines for larger pieces
- Challenges
- Motivation
- I tend to focus on the parts that are interesting for me
- I prefer to write close to the ground
- Motivation
- Seeing the gaps
- Practice:
- Write longer resources (ex: 10-30 pages)
- Challenges
- Outlines for lifelong learning
- Track areas for exploration
- Active edges, inactive edges, intersections
- Keep found things found
- High-level overview
- Challenge: combining past, present, and future
- Practice:
- Sort out a regular review process?
- Track areas for exploration
- The outline for a single thought
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