Today’s idea: The "Table of Contents project”

… As I was tidying my place this morning, I had a thought.

What if I simply had the“"skeleton” of each book I owned documented as a library within my Roam.

A list of books I own, and within each book page, a list of contents.

I like this!

1) It’s FAST and EASY. Copying a ToC into my Roam would take hardly any time at all. Convenience factor = HIGH.

2) It serves as a scaffolding of ideas. A base network to reference in other places.

I can then reference a chapter as it applied to something else…

I can elaborate with more thorough chapter summaries as I’m inspired to. I can spin off from the subject into my own inspired, but related ideas.

I can tag the chapters to start to create a network of related ideas from different places.

I can build connections between sources.

In a truly meta fashion — Kyle provided a great summary for “How to Read a Book”, which I was able to copy into my database.

The ideas above sorta describe documenting the [[systematic skimming]] step in that method. https://twitter.com/brandontoner/status/1309948999781281793