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# Can Atomic Ideas Grow On Their Own?
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/202301240131/
- Published: 2023-01-27T05:39:33.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-27T23:50:07.000Z
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: obsidian, zettelkasten

PKM zealots assume that the act of note-taking will create emergent properties by making singleton notes. But how does one **prove** this? *Is note-taking worth the effort*?

Some potential ideas to test:

- What is the half-life of any particular note? Meaning, when do the contents of a note become useless? [202212212331](https://www.bramadams.dev/202212212331)
- How easy is it to append/expand upon the idea in a note? Is it locked off to updates? How easy is it to "breed" a note with others? [202301071346](https://www.bramadams.dev/202301071346) Is it calling to be connected to the network like mycella or does it have a sexual urge to procreate? [202212291355](https://www.bramadams.dev/202212291355)
- How often does the note appear in relevance searches? How often does the note bubble to the surface? Is it semantically similar to many other notes? [Birds of a Feather](https://www.bramadams.dev/Birds%20of%20a%20Feather)

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