How to apply Bob Dotos method

antonioperez

I just got Bob Dotos book, which is already making the ZK method easier to understand than Sonkes book, and most other videos, etc.

I'm going to create a paper based ZK on 5x8 cards to avoid digital overwhelm.

I really like this guy's setup and would like something similar using Bob's book.

I'm just confused with the index Bob's mentions in his book vs how the guy uses the index folder in his system. Bob talks about how to put fleeting notes into the index to check later.

Whereas the guy has these index cards that are alphabetically separated.

Are the two of them using the word index in different contexts?

EDIT: The guy starts talking about the index in his zettelkasten box at 26:45

Thanks!

zettelsan

I think that the confusion here is the term "index."

The index used in the video roughly corresponds to what Bob Doto explained as "keyword index" (Section 6.5 of his book). And that has nothing to do with how fleeting notes should be organized.

Fleeting notes are stored in what Doto terms "Inbox" (see Figure 7, for example). That has nothing to do with index.