> How would you go about storing notes from a book/course so that they fit in this system?
Overall, they don't. Zettelkasten is just one of the folders within my note-taking app (Obsidian), and notes from books go into a separate folder. If there are some titbits that I see being useful outside of the book, I duplicate it into a zettelkasten note.
> Group them together somehow?
I have an "also see" section in my template where I link every other short note that's somehow connected. That's what I meant by "linking them as much as possible". The end goal is to be able to follow the links between similar notes instead of having to search for them. My library isn't big enough at the moment, but once it becomes, I should be able to click on a random note, follow a few links, and have an entire article with sources to back it up with little to no effort, using thoughts I had months or years ago.
> Have an "index" note with just hyperlinks to the rest?
Yeah I also do this. I have a note titled "00 zk" that's an index note for all the zettelkasten notes. I don't fill it out automatically at the moment, but I have a plugin that can do "link all notes within this folder", and I trigger it with a hotkey from time to time. That index note helps me to see similar notes and interlink them, because I never view that folder with a file explorer.
Most people in that thread are just complaining of high disk usage without specifying where access occurs.
Then page 3 has the following user report:
> I'm running Windows 10 and my Dropbox is located on my E drive (E:\Dropbox). I also notice high disk activity. However when I look in Resource Monitor I noticed that the high activity generated by Dropbox.exe is on the C drive (not E).
To which an employee says the reason is that dropbox is installed on C:.
> Although you have your Dropbox folder on your E: drive, the application is still installed on your C: drive, so that’s why you’re seeing the activity there.
Sorry, I did a poor job explaining. The smoking gun is CPU usage not file system activity. Perhaps you know more about this and can explain it to me. If I copy files from one place on my system that is outside of my Dropbox folder to any other location that is also outside of my Dropbox folder, how is it even possible for the Dropbox client to consume CPU resources if it isn't monitoring files outside of the Dropbox folder?
Here is link showing more people reporting the same problem. Files being copied from one part of the file system to another and the Dropbox client consumes 60%-100% CPU. I cant even comprehend how that is possible.
> how is it even possible for the Dropbox client to consume CPU resources if it isn't monitoring files outside of the Dropbox folder?
I did not debug this or look at anything, so I can't tell you.
One plausible explanation is they are effectively polling Dropbox folder instead of blocking until actual changes occurr. So maybe that hogs CPU scanning the Dropbox folder at inappropriate times, meaning that other activity on the machine has to compete for CPU time and lock acquisitions with unrelated but very noisy requests from the Dropbox client.
The fact that some users say that adjusting ACLs might get their client "unstuck" would fit this theory. Maybe they had a bug that generates noisy scans on the disk when they get "access denied" in an unexpected place.
As far as rule of thumbs go, I think it's a good one.