How do you capture a framework into Zettelkasten?
I'm doing a deep dive into a product management framework, where I'm breaking down the necessary knowledge within each phase of that framework so that I can both produce better strategic & planning documents for my team and to write blog posts to teach other product managers how to operate within this framework.
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It's unclear to me how to productively capture this framework & begin developing out within my Zettelkasten. I've kept my ZK for ~6 months now, so I'm familiar with the framework (both from notes workflow & ideas workflow perspectives).
Currently, I'm considering this method:
- Create a note that contains the flowchart itself.
- Branch off of this note by creating a new note for each Phase & each document.
- Dive into the methodologies & techniques required at each Phase from there.
Am I on the right track? Is there anything obvious that I'm missing here?
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So, there's no right or wrong here, just what works for you. That's really unhelpful advice, so I can probably explain a bit about how I would tackle this. Which is in no way authoritative, except in that it works for me and my needs (which kinda align with yours).
I usually ask myself, what would interest me about the framework at a later time? You already have a clear idea here, you want to use the framework as a way of communicating with others. I'd probably follow your approach as well:
Caveat emptor, your mileage may vary, etc.
I think you are on the right track. At least, that is one way of doing it:
This approach introduces a massive amount of hierarchical structure into your ZK. I'm not often in favour of that, but in your case, it seems appropriate, at least as a starting point.
However, don't forget to also create connections from each zettel to other zettels in the same work universe (not already connected through your structure notes) and to other general or random zettels in your ZK that are not part of your work universe. If you don't do this, you haven't really created a zettelkasten; you've just used The Archive to produced a structured set of notes. Maybe that is sufficient for your purposes, but the real magic of a ZK comes from the organic network of connections between zettels, not from the top-down structure.
This is exactly my advice. The flowchart is the very structure you need for your structure note. Depending what font you are using, you can create an ASCII-Flowdiagram which allows you to create clickable links within the image.
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I've been slowly working on this very idea (via some old broken code that needs updating)...
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This is how the Structure Note on GTD could be organised:
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Very nice (& better than my crude attempt).
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Thank you! I have 2 major takeaways from this:
Thanks, all!