Networked note-taking as feminist research method

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πŸ“½οΈ Building a feminist note-taking system

Last updated May 27, 2023

# The 4 β€œnodes” of this system:

  1. πŸ“– Flatness
  2. πŸ“– Interconnection
  3. πŸ“– Atomicity
  4. πŸ“– Iteration

Next: πŸ“½οΈ 1. Flatness


Transcript

So I decided to give networked note-taking a shot, striving to integrate the seemingly isolated worlds of feminist epistemology alongside the techy-hustle culture of PKM. Drawing on both these spaces, I decided to use a community-supported piece of freeware called Obsidian to view my notes, which are stored as plain Markdown files and are easy to pull out of Obsidian if need be. I also came to four guiding rules for my system, which I call β€œnodes” to emphasize their structuring relationality with each other. I’m going to do a short overview of these in the rest of my time here, but more details and their technical implementation are available in the paper.