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Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes
To establish relationships between informational units in a zettelkasten, units must able to move into conceptual and spatial proximity with one another.
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Serendipity and the Zettelkasten
How exactly does serendipity show up when working with a zettelkasten, and how might it be assessed?
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Reading Ideas as Information: Sketches of a Theoretical Framework
People have trouble capturing ideas, because ideas are inherently slippery. Seeing ideas as actional information, roots ideas in the writing and thinking people are actively working on.
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How I Start a Book Project Using a Zettelkasten
Steps you can take to begin writing with your zettelkasten.
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Folgezettel Will Not Necessarily Create Discrete Topical Sections in Your Zettelkasten
Clearing up misunderstandings about how folgezettel functions in the zettelkasten.
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The Difference Between Hub Notes and Structure Notes Explained
A look at what distinguishes hub notes from structure notes, as well as how they work together to help you find and develop ideas in your zettelkasten.
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How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity
A preliminary framework for people wanting to experiment with a collaborative zettelkasten.
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What Do We Mean When We Say "Bottom-Up?"
The term "bottom-up" is commonly used to characterize "flat" note-taking systems that reject both hierarchy and topical folders. But, what does it really mean?
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Inspired Destruction: How a Zettelkasten Explodes Thoughts (So You Can Have New Ones)
Extracting ideas from other people's work is one of the primary means by which new ideas are developed.
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Doing What Matters Most: Personal Project Management for the Burgeoning Homesteader
The six steps my wife and I use to check off tasks and complete projects.
- Keeping the Zettelkasten in Mind When Creating New Notes
- 4-Week "Writing With a Zettelkasten" Course Begins Sept 5
- Using Diaries and Journals as Source Material for Zettelkasten Notes
- How to Handle Facts in Your Zettelkasten
- There is No "One True Meaning" in a Text: Reading as a Communal Act
- How to Use Folgezettel in Your Zettelkasten: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
- Hidden Relevance: Where Seemingly Dissonant Ideas Meet
- What is a Permanent Note? (Correcting Some Common Misunderstandings)
- The Spirit of Productivity: Channeling Inspiration Into Doing What Matters Most
- Is "Conscious Capitalism" Still an Option? Was it Ever?
- Don't Ditch Your Old Notes: An Argument for Holding onto Abandoned Ideas
- What is a Fleeting Note?
- Folgezettel is Not an Outline: Luhmann's Playful Appreciation of (Dys)function
- (Q&A) "I just finished reading a book and took lots of notes. Now what?"
- The New Convert and the Old Devotee
- What is a Literature Note?
- A Zettelkasten is Not for "Making Connections"
- Zettelkasten, Linking Your Thinking, and Nick Milo's Search for Ground
- Linking New Notes & Fearing Lost Ones
- Quotes are Not Notes: Creating a Zettelkasten of Ideas
- A scraped knee is never just a scraped knee
- Friction-free does not lead to more free time
- My former alter ego
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How I Use CLOGs to Organize My Writing Files
A novel PKM way of engaging with writing docs without the use of folders
- User-Centric Means Labor-Invisible
- Decentralization is Inevitably Centralized
- The Spectacle Always Recoups Dissent
- Resonance over scale
- Misconceptions About the Relationship Between Permanent & Evergreen Notes
- Folgezettel is More than Mechanism
- Tensions Between Zettelkasten & the Productivity Scene
- Obsidian Publish Should Not Cost $198 a Year to Use
- How to Be a Good Teacher
- Is NYT's Acquiring Wordle the End of an Era?
- The Five Levels of Hype
- Mindsets that Prevent(ed) Me From Ever Making Money as an Artist
- Cars feeling creepy dystopian
- I Wanna See Writing Gangs!
- The Predicament of Bourgeois Anticapitalism