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• micahredding

  January 2021

  I would (and do) include such things in my notes/slipbox/zettelkasten. In this case, you can create a note to answer a specific need—"How do I do this specific task?"

  As you collect such tasks, perhaps you will find reasons to connect them together into larger patterns, or to extract particular patterns from them. But you should start with the practical use case, and work your way from there.
• GeoEng51

  January 2021

  @Artem @micahredding said:
  I would (and do) include such things in my notes/slipbox/zettelkasten. In this case, you can create a note to answer a specific need—"How do I do this specific task?"

  As you collect such tasks, perhaps you will find reasons to connect them together into larger patterns, or to extract particular patterns from them. But you should start with the practical use case, and work your way from there.

  Yes, I do the same thing. I only have a few such zettels, but they are extremely useful.
• Sascha

  January 2021

  On of the aspects of knowledge is usefulness. So, I'd create a note that servers you as a tool to solve this problem.

  I am a Zettler
• ctietze

  January 2021 edited January 2021

  In case it's any consolence, this is what I have:

  # 201301281318 Convert screen capture video to Gif
  #screencapture #gif #film #imagemagick #ffmpeg
  
  
      $ ffmpeg -i capture.mov -pix_fmt rgb8 -r 8 output.gif
      $ convert -layers Optimize output.gif output_optimized.gif
  
  `-r 8` sets the frame rate. Low FPS increase playback speed.
  

  I also have ~10 notes for #ffmpeg, some grouped in a structure note about using a Raspberry Pi to encode video, which in turn is linked to from a Raspberry Pi useful projects overview note. That's what I found useful. This GIF snippet I look up from time to time as a copy-paste-template.

  Author at Zettelkasten.de • https://christiantietze.de/
• Artem

  January 2021

  Thank you, guys, it helps!
  Indeed, if it is "to answer a specific need—"How do I do this specific task?"" - then it can be a part of Zettlekasten and possibly some not expected patterns will emerge some time later such as "hey, here's how ffmpeg is similar to avconv and we could use them together" - will try!

  Small info - large info
  On including the technical things such as command lines, may I ask where do you tend to draw the line between reference and zettel (and where do you store such references)?

  Just one command line certainly can fit to a small atomic zettel and as @ctietze shows I can comment on what parameters are for and why they are there. But then I found a relevant Apple script that helps to find exactly the huge videos (for further conversion). It is couple of pages long and I am only interested in how to use it, not in how it works (for now at least).

  Is it then normal to put such scripts to some reference place and link to it e.g. from zettel on "Here's how I save space when video library is too big: run [linktoref]this script for finding the videos[/linktoref] and this ffmpeg line to convert to something smaller"?

  References storage
  If I may ask, what do you tend to use as a storage for such references (scripts, article pdfs, scans of your job contract and travel tickets) - just a flat directory with many-many files somewhere next to your Zettelkasten, more specialized storages (DevonThink, Tinderbox, Evernote even) or many tools simultaneously including e.g. links to webmail entries?
• Splattack

  January 2021 edited January 2021

  Welcome @Artem. I think that kind of encoding solution should be inside your Zettelkasten.

  Part of my structure notes are workflows. For example; I have a workflow for photography that I developed over the years from watching tutorials, articles, and books. That note contains the best practices that I'm able to replicate without having to figure it out again. It gives me a step-by-step of how to ingest, what filenaming convention I decided, which tags to use, how to post-process images, where to store them and where to backup, and what formats and resolutions are good to export based on my experience. Which cameras I use and what settings I use the most. If I have a question I know I have this note, and when my workflow evolves or I get a new camera I update my settings in this note.

  Regarding the reference storage. I do editorial and graphic design in my Zettelkasten with iA Writer (images in-notes are supported) and I keep an image folder on my Zettelkasten; notes-Projects/, (2) notes-My-Work/, (3) notes-Collected/, (4) notes_grafik/. This last folder stores only images used in my ZK.

  This is an example of how the image gets referenced in the note as in code and a web preview;

  

  I always read my Zettelkasten as a web preview showing images. I only used the code view for editing.

  For PDFs or other resources I just write their unique filename with extension or URL inside the note, for example I write a bullet point;

  • See more examples at reference-article.pdf.

  My folders are notes-Projects/ for structure notes such as plans, lists, and workflows. The folder notes-My-Work/ for anything I've wrote. For things I didn't write, notes-Collected/, and has quotes, it has an ffmpeg script I used a year ago, and other reference information such as text from a manual or things like "how to repair something". (Note: this last folder isn't a pack-rat home, just stuff I've used and might use again).

  Have you ever been doing something in your computer, and have opened several programs and have windows arranged in your screen as to work from and using multiple windows? Lately, I've been taking a screenshot of that arrangement as to be able to recreate that setting the next time I need to do those actions, and briefly documenting a note with that screenshot and some text.

  Post edited by Splattack on January 2021
• Artem

  January 2021 edited January 2021

  Thank you for the example, @Splattack !

  Do you ever have issues with searches and link navigation returning you reference material and your own work instead of just zettels? Or maybe you somehow search just zettels and always clearly see which link is to zettels and which - to references?

  Just thinking that one of zettelkasten powers seems to be in letting you browse-navigate-search between your own atomic and autonomous thinking bits (building a train of thoughts) and then sudden references (and even your own work that is great, but not atomic) looking almost like zettels may or may not be harmful.