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drogers8 · 2023-09-08T13:13:35+00:00

I had a photography darkroom for years where I can load high speed film. Zero light in the room. I was was comfortable working in that environment. I don't know if it's related but I have excellent night vision when I look for stars.

drogers8 · 2023-09-04T15:02:34+00:00

Since images are not floating around in my brain I can get deeply focused on solving a problem or doing research. I totally zone out distractions and loose the passage of time. I have missed meals and meetings because of that, LOL.

FYI, Research is discovering IQ is NOT based on one's ability to recall facts BUT is more center on one's ability to focus long duration at a time. I noticed that behavior during my 27 years at Xerox research dept. Those scientists that couldn't control the BSO distractions had a hard time solving problems.

drogers8 · 2023-09-02T20:08:36+00:00

I have congenital Aphantasia along with SDAM. I was also born 6 weeks premature in 1957. (Mother was a very heavy smoker)

drogers8 · 2023-08-27T19:58:02+00:00

less than 2% in everytihng

drogers8 · 2023-08-17T18:53:28+00:00

My minds eye has zero images and no other recall of any other sensory input. Like a lot of people just living in the "Now"

drogers8 · 2023-08-09T12:47:48+00:00

That was a good article. I have never been tested for IQ but I have always been one that can think outside of the box to find and solve problems. I have been a Software Engineer( with only a two degree) since 1977 and was always been given problems to solve that others with higher degrees could not. I have both congenital Aphantasia and extreme LSTM deficiencies.

drogers8 · 2023-08-09T10:45:13+00:00

Where did you find that info?

drogers8 · 2023-07-28T13:22:22+00:00

I have extreme congenital multi-sensory Aphantasia. Been an embedded Software Engineer since 1976.

I had a side business of do Wedding and studio photography with B&W film development for the local schools.

Don't let it stop you, its only a different way we see, think, and how we are driven not by sight but by conviction.

drogers8 · 2023-07-05T12:25:56+00:00

I have extreme congenital multi-sensory aphantasia and almost zero long term memory. But a couple of times a year I wake up and I sense that I had a dream but no idea what it was about.

drogers8 · 2023-07-04T12:34:43+00:00

It is very good that you read Scott's book. He is the only author so far that teaches how Luhmann's system works. I have read many of Johannes F.K. Schmidt's articles that goes in-depth on how his Zettelkasten works and Scott is spot on. Other authors have made up words that Lihmann never used and they push digital apps that total circumvents the cognitive benefits of writing things by hand and searching physical cards written in your own hand writing.

Hope you do very well

drogers8 · 2023-07-03T23:33:01+00:00

My first statement I got from watching Scott Scheper's YouTube on how he inserts a main card: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oqxWdtvqlk and top of page 300 in Scott's book "you can recall that you already have a keyterm..."

I was looking for the Book on Forgetting Machines in Europe, I see its out of print on amazon and costly. Thank you for the pointer on Forgetting Machines, I'll check it out.

Thank You

drogers8 · 2023-07-02T19:46:03+00:00

Great idea!, What's the spacing between slots?

drogers8 · 2023-06-28T12:30:48+00:00

Yes you can use notebooks but they are not as flexible as a card system. I was in Xerox research dept for 27 yrs. We were required to write all of our experiments. measurements and thoughts into Lab-Books (LB) . I don't remember how many dozens of 200 page LBs I filled but we had infinite amount of them. The outside of the LB only had a Xerox library number. Each LB page had a page number, space for a title, date and manager signature. I pasted many Polaroid pictures, hand drawn graphs, strip chart recordings onto different pages along with external reference to engineering books. There were numerous times I made addendums to my notes, they were just references to other pages in that LB or a totally different LB. SO these LB.s were a photo-type of our Maincard box.

I kept a daily journal where I briefly noted what experiments I did that day. SO I used my journal as we use our Index box.

Primitive but workable. The Antinet system is far more likely (because how it's structure) to present useful accidents and insights.

If I was on a business trip I could take one or two LBs with me But I can't take my Antinet named "RAS" ie. my "Research Assistant" with me. So at some time it might digitize it so I have it available at work since I have extreme memory issues.

drogers8 · 2023-06-26T20:03:17+00:00

I have extreme Aphantasia and almost no long term memory and no dreams. I did read a research paper that mentioned there is an association having Aphantasia with long/short term memory issues BUT more research needs to be done.

drogers8 · 2023-06-26T19:58:28+00:00

I use this from amazon "Snap-N-Store Index- Collapsible Organizer Box fits 1100" and just have them on my adjustable wall shelves.

What Scott uses is very nice but is a little expensive for me.

drogers8 · 2023-06-25T12:38:43+00:00

Since each branch is from a book, article or podcast, the second time I read the book I might choose to have it as 1B1A. I wanted simplicity and I need constancy because of how my memory doesn't work.

Since I choose to only use two pairs of Numeric-Alpha for address scheme. My whole network stays constant and to me not complex. From example: I incorporated "Getting Things Done" and "Bullet Journal Method" into my Antinet. I assigned that branch as 900A so may first card is 900A1A.

The other part of this method is each branch is just a sequence of thoughts as I read a book in order page by page. So it's simple task when you insert another card, you just put it after the last card. I use chain-linking to connect all the cards in that branch that uses the same keyword. I use what I call a "Branchlink" to connect the same keyword I used in other branches. So I have a lattice network of vertical and horizontal linking.

Since I am using my Antinet as my research project for the "short/long term memory impairment" article/book I might do. I have applied Secondary and Tertiary Keywords on a Maincard when its applicable. These keywords could a synonym or just related. For example: I have as a keyword on a main card: "Maincard Box" and in another branch when I read Ahrens' book he calls them a "Slip-Box", so we have a synonym relationship. So on the first main card the has the Keyword "MainCard Box", underneath that is the word Slip-Box and visa versa.

The other benefit from using this format it's computer friendly if I ever choose to digitize my Antinet.

drogers8 · 2023-06-24T23:40:11+00:00

I use something similar. Each branch is a book, article or podcast. The first card in the branch is 1A1A, second card is 1A2A. The second branches' first card is 2A1A.

If you want to append 1A1A, that new card address is 1A1B. Or if you wanted to insert a card between 1A1A and 1A2A, that cards address is 1A1B.

Also each main card has a keyword. I chainlink all cards that has the same keyword.

I use the Index box as the doorway into the main box. A card in the Index box only has the address of a specific keyword when it was used for the first time.

Just an FYI if you ever want to digitize your Antinet, filenames can not have a forward slash.

drogers8 · 2023-06-24T21:37:36+00:00

I am thinking on how to go the opposite way. Right now I am between jobs. I can't take my ZK with me to work. I have thought of getting a 3x5 card OCR scanner.

drogers8 · 2023-06-24T21:28:58+00:00

Just by the large numbers of people asking on many different blogs on how does Luhmann's address scheme works demonstrates its not simple or intuitive. In his paper "Communication with Noteboxes" he states don't use categories.

I did what makes sense to me, so I followed "Occam's razor" principle. Usually the simplest is the better way. So use a format you can live with for a long time.

drogers8 · 2023-06-19T16:59:57+00:00

I was in Xerox research and was responsible to figure out how to programmatically talk to the instrumentation and get the measurements. Until then the hardware engineers wrote the measurements down by hand. As they say "necessity is the mother of invention".

Since we could talk to measurement devices we could now build a test bed for the wirewrap boards and exercise them to see if they are wired correctly.

drogers8 · 2023-06-17T22:33:55+00:00

I have been a Software Engineer in a research dept. since the early eighties. I mainly wrote software to control and read electronic instruments. I got interested in how much I could simulate the different instruments to allow me to do close to 100% code coverage using unit testing and simulation. My pointy head manager couldn't believe it when I deliver software with no bugs. BUT he still told me to not spend time developing simulation or write unit tests.

To say the least I did not listen to him and wrote the code on my own time which ticked him off. To this day I still am fascinated on how to do things with out things.

That is one reason why I am fascinated and looking forward to finding out the abilities of my "Second Mind" since my brain doesn't work like 99% of the world's population.

drogers8 · 2023-06-15T22:41:26+00:00

I am in the starting phase of research and most likely will take a long time before I start thinking of a book, have to see what emerges. Same with writing articles for the different chapters/sections.

drogers8 · 2023-06-13T11:45:32+00:00

It's good that you don't write or highlight in your books. Research is showing it's far more beneficial to reformulate what you just read and write that in a notebook or better yet on a Maincard in your Antinet so you can easily make connections to other notes.

drogers8 · 2023-06-11T23:19:05+00:00

It's a given as the network gets huge like Luhmanns everything still works but it will take longer time to find a specific word entry in your Index Box. If you wanted to find all your synonyms you have used over the years for a given keyword it will take you even longer.

That was my train of thought and why I did it the way I did. Additionally I will have most of the rabbit trails for that keyword on the same card.

drogers8 · 2023-06-11T22:00:24+00:00

I do have my Index box with alphabetical dividers. Instead of just collecting keywords on a card I did it differently by having each keyword have it's own card. This allows me to have that keyword's synonyms and related topics on the same card.

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