Top-down: start with structure, like folders or MOCs
Middle-out: happens when we’re spending our time in Emergence Level 3, where higher notes like MOCs are being assembled, collided, and unified
Unifying Phase:
merge/unify, navigate, reference
what emerges is a valuable grouping of ideas.
2 obvious benefits: it can be used to navigate your notes and to create a final product
Colliding Phase:
interact, exchange, collide
thought collisions produce insights. colliding ideas in higher order notes can raise our thinking abilities to another level. this is what we mean by “next level thinking”
Assembling Phase:
gather, assemble, incubate
it’s helpful to get a higher level perspective on your notes. any note about notes is a higher order note. it will mainly have links to other notes.
^ You can rapidly switch between top-down and bottom-up in middle-out