Question: What if you did not have the word “Asthma” organized into your pulmonology section and you were learning about it in your neurology class. How would you put the word “Asthma” as a reference in your pulmonology section rather then your neurology section. I am just a little confused on how to organize my information from the beginning.
Here is my approach. I am assuming that Asthma should eventually be a concept under the pulmonology section and it is just that you haven’t learnt Asthma in detail yet. So what I would do is, when you are referring to Asthma in your neurology class (e.g. xyz causes Asthma) you just create a stub reference of Asthma and later move Asthma to the correct section when you actually learn more about it. A stub is a rem that doesn’t belong to any hierarchy (i.e. it is a top level rem). So in general when you are learning new information and you encounter concepts that you haven’t studied before, you can just create a stub for that and deal with it later in detail.
This is how you can create a stub. While typing (e.g. xyz causes Asthma) you can press [ twice to open up the popup that lets you refer to an existing rem or create a new one. Since you want to create a new one, you can use the Ctrl + Enter shortcut after [[. In summary, you would do something like type xyz causes [[ Asthma and then Ctrl + Enter. This will create a stub reference. Later when you are studying pulmonology and you have to go deep into Asthma, you can search and open this Asthma rem (Ctrl + O) and bring that rem to the required hierarchy (Pulmonology) by changing the parent of Asthma rem (shortcut key Ctrl + M).
Sometimes when I have to refer a concept Abc that I haven’t studied yet, but know that Abc will belong to the same document, I would just create a rem with the name Abc in the same document (instead of creating a stub and moving it back), and refer to that Abc. Then later when I learn that Abc in detail I would just add more details to under that Abc rem.
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love it, thanks for sharing this!
One more thing since we are on this topic. Sometimes you get into a situation where a concept Abc can belong to many hierarchies or documents and you learn different aspects of the same concept Abc from different lectures. So in that situation you can create Portals to Abc. Using a portal you can basically put the same Abc concept at different places. Then if you make changes to Abc from any of those places it gets reflected everywhere.
To create portal to a concept, you can use Ctrl + I (capital i) and search for the concept.
… wow… THANK YOU SO MUCH.!!! 