Zettlekasten 101
The Zettlekasten method is a system to organize your notes to create a web of thoughts and ideas that you can travel. The main idea is that you organize your notes where every note represents one idea and you connect notes with each other so you can travel the net.
The process could be explained as the following steps:
- Read something. Then take notes of that, with your thoughts and ideas, create temporary notes
- Take some time of the day to process those notes
- Read through them, get what is useful and throw what is not
- Create permanent notes. This is one of the most important part of the actual process and should take time if done properly as it is not merely a dumping info process 20210224205306.
- Go through previous notes and link the new note if it is necessary. This is the main way to create knowledge with the Zettlekasten, and should always have context 20210224210526.
Additionally to permanent notes, some extra notes or features can be used:
- Literature notes: on things read, if you want to keep them. Only specific about the book
- Index notes
- Reference system
- Tags – note on tags and the need to be careful
- Inbox
Notes References
20210224205306 Creating permanent notes should take some effort
20210224210526 Properly linking notes to reinforce what you learn and generate new ideas
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