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  • GeoEng51GeoEng51

    @Edmund 👍

  • dylanjrdylanjr

    Take my dirty American money! :)

  • SaschaSascha

    @dylanjr said:

    Take my dirty American money! :)

    I will rub my dirty body with it, darling. (And then buy my daughter some annoying "mind stimulating" toy)

    I am a Zettler

  • EdmundEdmund
    edited February 2025

    I just finished inspectional reading. My finding what the book is about in one sentence:

    "Die Zettelkastenmethode" is a book by Sacha Fast about building and using a personal tool to transform information and ideas into knowledge through a value-added process.

    And here is my first version of a Literature Map with key terms:

    Post edited by Edmund on

    Edmund Gröpl — 100% organic thinking. Less than 5% AI-generated ideas.

  • MauroMauro
    edited February 2025

    Is it the time to start learning German? :#

  • EdmundEdmund

    My first links between key terms from @Sascha 's book and related notes in my Zettelkasten:

    Edmund Gröpl — 100% organic thinking. Less than 5% AI-generated ideas.

  • NickNick

    @Edmund said:
    My first links between key terms from @Sascha 's book and related notes in my Zettelkasten:

    Do you read German or did the book get published in English and I just missed it?

  • NidoNido

    @Edmund Are you going to continue your analytical reading and put the terms into propositions and the propositions into arguments?

  • EdmundEdmund
    edited March 2025

    @Nido : That’s my idea. 🙂

    Edmund Gröpl — 100% organic thinking. Less than 5% AI-generated ideas.

  • EdmundEdmund

    @Nick said:
    Do you read German or did the book get published in English and I just missed it?

    I read it in German, but my Zettelkasten is in English.

    Edmund Gröpl — 100% organic thinking. Less than 5% AI-generated ideas.

  • EdmundEdmund
    edited March 2025

    When a visual is finished, it is hard to understand how it was created. Here's my six steps process:

    6 Steps of "Non-linear Reading"
    1. Find what the book is about in one sentence.
    2. Find key terms and propositions from book.
    3. Create concept map from key terms and propositions.
    4. Connect key terms and notes from your Zettelkasten as "Golden Links".
    5. Add date created to compare ideas from non-linear thinking on a timeline.
    6. Decide which part of the book to read next.

    Is it a fast or a slow process?

    1 h for reading book (1, 2) + 1 h for creating literature map (3, 4, 5, 6) = 2 h in total

    Compared with my "linear reading":

    1 min per page x 261 pages per book = 4:30 h in total

    Time well spent. :-)

    Best books are the most readable. Thanks to @Sascha.

    Edmund Gröpl — 100% organic thinking. Less than 5% AI-generated ideas.

  • SaschaSascha

    So, what do you think?

    I am a Zettler

  • EdmundEdmund
    edited March 2025

    I've switched to linear reading. Otherwise I might miss some of the valuable key propositions. Here is one from page 102:

    The beauty of a thought is based on an intuitive assessment of its quality.

    It enables a "golden link" to my Zettelkasten to the entry point "Concepts of beauty". Today I found a beautiful quote that underlines this concept:

    We may talk about the elegance of an equation, but we forget to find value in the beauty of a thought.
    — Marilynne Robinson

    The updated literature map:

    Edmund Gröpl — 100% organic thinking. Less than 5% AI-generated ideas.

  • EdmundEdmund

    More about at Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7389424457

    Edmund Gröpl — 100% organic thinking. Less than 5% AI-generated ideas.

  • chrisaldrichchrisaldrich

    @Edmund I'm intrigued by your note about beauty with respect to information, about which I've got a small tranche of notes forming. You might appreciate this quote from Arthur Eddington in 1927: https://boffosocko.com/2013/09/26/entropy-beauty-melody/

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    No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them. —Umberto Eco

  • EdmundEdmund
    edited March 2025

    @chrisaldrich said: ... You might appreciate this quote from Arthur Eddington in 1927: https://boffosocko.com/2013/09/26/entropy-beauty-melody/

    Thank you for your quote. It helped me to see „beauty“ as a „bridge“ term between various disciplines like physics, note-taking, architecture, art and many more. Using „beauty“ as a hub easily leads to building bridge notes between these separated areas of knowledge.

    Edmund Gröpl — 100% organic thinking. Less than 5% AI-generated ideas.

  • geovalygeovaly

    Any updates about the kindle version and also English version?

  • ctietzectietze

    @geovaly English version: https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/3236/journal-and-ama-the-english-translation-of-the-book-has-begun#latest

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

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