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Collector’s Fallacy

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The Collector’s Fallacy • Zettelkasten Method

There’s a tendency in all of us to gather useful stuff and feel good about it. To collect is a reward in itself.

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to know about something’ isn’t the same as ‘knowing something’

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same holds true when it comes to managing bookmarks. We stumble upon an interesting web page and don’t want to lose the information, thus we keep it as a bookmark

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Pressing the ‘copy’ button is immediately rewarded with copied paper. These reinforcements are satisfying. From there stems the illusion we have done something meaningful: “Look how big my pile of paper is

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Bookmarking a web page is satisfying because we get rid of the fear of losing access to the information

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read a text effectively to assimilate its ideas and learn from it.

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We need to extract what’s inside and write things down.

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Once we forget what we knew, having read the text becomes worthless.

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