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- Semantic hypertext indexes ideas, not vocabulary <sum06 1 10>
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- Linguistic versus Here's the problem with taxonomies constructed from word
- semantic hypertext lists -- the index was probably built by marking key
- ================== words. This approach only indexes words and not the
- ideas contained in an information system.
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- "Good" hypertext should <link04>:
- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ - index ideas │
- │ - require a minimum of keystrokes to reach any idea │
- │ - show relationships between all ideas │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- How do you I doubt many college graduates ever learned how to
- index ideas? systematically find and index all the ideas within a
- ============ article, book, author, situation, or period. Yet,
- the indexing of ideas and relationships is perhaps the
- fastest way to subject mastery. Here's how I do it.
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- I critically read the material looking for these
- concepts:
- (more)
- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- Types of ideas │ Objects -- look for nouns (and adjectives) │
- ============== │ Actions -- look for verbs (and adverbs) │
- │ Events -- look for time and place │
- │ Relationships -- look for connectives │
- │ Abstractions -- look for intangible nouns │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Collect ideas, Once I've identified all the ideas within my material,
- then convert list I use this information to construct my "semantic"
- to a hierarchy taxonomy <link30>. This is the foundation creating a
- ============== useful system of knowledge <link37>.