Standard note-taking sorts by category. The information is organised, but organised for retrieval rather than thinking. A note about process design and a note about human psychology might be deeply related, but if they live in different folders the relationship never forms, and neither note becomes more useful for the existence of the other. [[Non-linear note making]] is the alternative: a system where notes link by relationship rather than administrative category, which is how [[Zettelkasten as a modular architecture]] produces insight rather than just storage.
The intention of notes shouldn’t stop at reminding you what you read. It should extend to building something new from the collision of things you didn’t expect to connect. [[Better thinking over better note-taking]] is the reframe: the system succeeds not when it stores well but when it thinks well, and thinking requires connection in a way that [[Making notes is the easiest part]] never produces on its own.