The How and Why of Entity Shorthand

If you are building a commonplace book, you must learn how to create an ontology that works across books. Unfortunately, developing this ontology is anything but trivial. We must be able to store ideas (entries) and find them later to use them in our essays or conversations.Even worse, storing entries and looking up entries have inverse cost functions, i.e. the more time you take to store something, the easier it is to find later. The less time you take to store an entry, the harder it is to find later.If you throw your clothes in a pile in the middle of the floor versus taking the time to hang them properly...Entity shorthand is useful because it is fast to store and fast to look up./* ToC (Page 1): B1 = Book Title 1, Author B2 = Book Title 2, Author ... Reading Session Notations (Page 2-N): B#P#[key], [[marginalia]], ..., ;;;, *, (date) */ // real life example for I, Robot (B3) by Isaac Asimov and Why Does the World Exist by Jim Holt (B4) // I, Robot (B3) by Isaac Asimov…