zettelkasten
*planted: 09/03/2020last tended: 04/04/2025
- tags: note taking
"box of notes"
He wrote only on one side of each card to eliminate the need to flip them over, and he limited himself to one idea per card so they could be referenced individually.
– How To Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking and …
-Zettelkasten — How One German Scholar Was So Freakishly Productive
It feels a bit like the philosophy of tiddlers, to me.
The purpose of recording and organising information is so that it can be used again. The value of recorded information is directly proportional to the ease with which it can be re-used.
1. Notes / steps
- Literature notes
- Reference notes
- Permanent notes
- Review and repeat
- Capture ideas in the form of fleeting and/or reference notes.
- Turn these captures into individual main notes.
- Establish connections between the ideas recorded in these main notes.
- Keep track of developing trains of thought in hub notes, structure notes, and indexes.
- Turn these trains of thought into writing
2. Digital Zettelkasten
I use org-roam for this.
Does it make sense to have a timestamp in the filename?
3. Elsewhere
3.1. In my garden
Notes that link to this note (AKA backlinks).
- Fleeting notes
- 2021-04-03
- 2020-04-25
- Reframing and simplifying the idea of how to keep a Zettelkasten
- 2021-11-02
- My personal wiki setup
- 2022 Week 16 Summary
- Personal wiki page size
- note taking
- 2020-11-19
- 2020-03-09
- 2021-07-14
- 2020-03-27
- My answers to Sophie's questions about digital gardens
- A System for Writing
- collecting the dots