Bullet Point Notation

• A new workflow strategy primarily thought to be useful for Daily notes, also inspired from Yana Log Notes.
  • yana uses it for paper notes, also biology notes.
    • they accumulate random facts, say about something like the Default Mode Network, and gain insight with sub bullet points
• good for accumulating ideas without any real flow from one to another
  • sub ideas are also great, use sub bullet points as much as possible
  • organizes ideas automatically, this kind of “replaces” tying one idea to another in a standardly written note
• I would like to use for non daily note notes, there are some cases when studying non math stuff that it makes sense

Main distinguisher of when to use bullet points over standard prose is when accumulation as a stack is done rather than one long writing session. For ideas thought of across the day, bullet points would be good in a daily note to jot those down to be extended apon later with sub points. But end of day summaries are not accumulated and instead written all at once, so normal prose paragraphs are fine.

Yana Log Example

Not exactly how I use them as im not biologically inclined, but means you dont have to maintain coherency with exploring for a certain subject.

• The Unique Cytoarchitecture and Wiring of The Default Mode Network
  • This is such a brilliant lecture for some reason. Casey Paquola - time to watch all her lectures.
  • Basically to start, the DMN isn’t just task-negative: it’s activated during memory-related tasks, social cognition, etc., and they all depend on integration of internal and external information. That is one of the main functions of the DMN, as an association area.
    • But not all tasks, of course. The DMN was first discovered through its tendency to deactivate in response to external task demands: A default mode of brain function
      • Furthermore, in RS-FMRI, in her words the “principal axis of differentiation”, there’s 2 kinds of gradients. One anchored by the DMN, the other anchored by sensory regions.
        • Situating the default-mode network along a principal gradient of macroscale cortical organization (Marguiles et al. 2016)
          • Topographically, you can see it’s practically optimized to be maximally distant geodesically from the sensorimotor cortex.
        • The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective (Smallwood, Marguiles et al., 2021)
  • Instroducing *stepwise fuectional connectivity: Integration of visual and motor functional streams in the human brain