Note taking vs note making
The difference between note taking and note making didn't really click for me until I read the following note from Nick Milo's Ideaverse Lite vault:
Carl Sagan has earned my highest praise out of basically anyone I know.
When I think of Carl Sagan, I think of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. What Carl Sagan did for my love of the cosmos, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi did for my love of Flow. Both have enriched my life.
It's not about making detailed biographical notes about a person or subject, there's Wikipedia and books for that. The real core of note making is writing down what I think about someone or something, asking 'what does this mean to me?'
Sure, it can be useful to note down a few facts you want to remember or have easily to hand, but the real value of my vault/digital garden/Ideaverse/zettelkasten is recording my own thinking on a subject.
I guess I've always found that difficult coming from such a hard science background: I'm not used to my own opinion on something being a thing that has value.