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Using LLMs to Search This Forum
A quick suggestion, which comes mainly from @Sascha and @ctietze ... There is a "Search Forum" field in the upper right of the forum's web page. I have used it with mixed and often frustrating results over the years. I was looking for a comment I know I made a couple of years ago, but couldn't find. I hoped I could do some… -
I am really happy with my new Zettelkasten! Ideas, not notes.
When I tried the ZK method in the past (maybe 4 years ago), it worked well to allow me to create rich content from connected ideas. But there was a problem... I was using the lit note/perm note split. And the amount of lit notes became voluminous and hard to manage. My ZK was flooded my these lit notes. It became a… -
Integrating hands-on, experimental research into a zettelkasten
Hello all, I'm a PhD student and an experimental material scientist, and I've used a zettelkasten via Obsidian for organising my review of the scientific literature. It's an incredibly useful framework for synthesising and summarising literature, but I remain unsure how to best integrate my original research (seeing as I'm… -
Begginer Choices and Doubts
I’m a beginner with Zettelkasten and I’d like to know if these choices make sense or are at least acceptable for someone starting out. * Is it okay to avoid very long titles? For example, I’m studying Roman Law, and many of my notes naturally want to become something like: “something something… Roman Law” or “legal… -
Your Zettelkasten is not one tool. It’s eight.
We optimise for capture and linking. But ideas don’t mature in one mode — they move through conversation, constraint, embodiment, friction, time. I mapped the eight ways thinking changes shape as it leaves your head. The question isn’t how well does your system capture ideas? It’s how many modes can it hold? Fig:… -
Hello
Hi everyone, It’s nice to meet you. I feel like I’m very bad at Zettelkasten as I’m just starting out with it and want to get better. I decided to sign up after lurking here. I’m looking forward to learn and improve! -
Re: Switching all Management of Personal and Business Data to Logseq
@cyberelk11 You can use tags for that. When you tag a note or a bullet in logseq with, say, #oop that will create a page (oop) with all the tagged notes under linked references. I believe those are ordered by some of the OS' dates (created? modified?). This may give you something close but yet (so) far to that linearity,… -
Summarizing tightly coupled if-then ideas
This isn't a question of atomicity so much as what does and doesn't go in the cabinet in the first place. Despite reading quite a lot about ZK systems, this seems really fundamental and I'm not getting it. I might be misunderstanding the purpose of a ZK entirely. I have to read philosophical essays. Philosophy is a bit… -
Hi
Hello, I have just discovered this Forum. I am new using Zettelkasten. Or, at least, I am new using Zettelkaten knowing that the name "Zettelkasten" was describing the principles I was using to my own personal knowledge management but more matured, systematic, and a few more. So I am very happy I found a wider, more… -
What's happening in your ZK this month, May 2026?
We've had weekly versions in the past, but it's hard for anyone to keep that consistent. So I thought we might try a monthly version for a while, where anyone on the forum can start that thread for the month. On my side, I'm continuing to experiment with different kinds of #tagging. Right now I'm testing how some…