What's happening in your Zettelkasten this month, August 2026?

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The idea: a general chat about what we're working on currently.

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This month I'm doing overdue, but important, reworking.

The big revisit and rewrite

I've had a ZK for over three years now, and there are many groups of notes I always knew I should revisit and rework in some way. Finally, something has pushed me to stop putting it off and really do that.

I've decided to start looking for a new job. I have notes from three years ago that I made from books about cover letters, psychometric testing, and interviewing skills. These are some of the oldest ZK notes I have. They were never well organized or deeply linked, as at the time it was rushed work. But I always put off revisiting them because I didn't need them anymore after finding a job, so they were no longer a priority.

But now that I'm going to search for a new role, they've become some of the most important notes I have.

Today I started reworking them one by one. The main work is rewriting, and synthesizing different sources, but also I'm taking the opportunity to organize them better and have better links. However, some of them need to be updated so much that they actually need to be replaced with notes from completely new sources. Here are two examples of things that have changed a lot in three years:

1. We used to write cover letters and resumes thinking about how the human on the other side would read them. Today, companies use AI to screen applicants, and the AI creates the shortlist for a human to look at. So we need to think about how an AI would interpret our documents.
2. As it's almost always electronic these days, some of the old 'golden tips' are meaningless today. E.g. printing your cover letter and resume on expensive paper and practicing a beautiful ink signature.

Now that I'm getting some momentum on reworking these older notes, I want to keep up that momentum afterwards and revisit all older notes that I haven't looked at for a while.

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And how is it going for the rest of you? What's happening in your Zettelkasten this month?