In Fifth Grade I was taught to “outline.” The key to outlining, we learned, was contained in one simple rule: If you make a sub-heading “A”, you MUST also make at least one other sub-heading “B”. We grade-school minions spent a fair amount of time in mental agony trying to come up with the “B” [...]
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I am working on a half-dozen projects using the amazing TiddlyWiki application. This Bible wiki is my favorite.
In 2006 I asked my friend Kelly about something I couldn’t describe very well, but it would be some kind of little database to track information and ideas for me. “That sounds like a wiki,” said Kelly with his gift of occasional prescience. I noticed my web hosting package included PBworks (PBwiki at the time), [...]
Just follow these two steps: (1) Learn the passage well enough to recite it with confidence using the summary. (2) Keep the summary handy and use it to recite the passage many, many times. The fun part is you don’t do any “memorizing” exactly …
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ipj: Thanks so much for the post. I am right now...
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Scott: Kind comments from Måns and passingby are ...
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passingby: What a well written piece, thoughts are goo...
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DW: Well, the "nature writer" label was just my...
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Scott: That is valuable background, Ernest. My qu...
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Ernest Adams: I also feel that it's the best of the books...
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