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• andang76

  May 16 edited May 16

  I've found something in the past about a "visual Zettelkasten", even if I didn't elaborate:

  for example:

  • https://medium.com/tangibit-studios/evolving-design-language-with-a-visual-zettelkasten-4fc1bc4350dc
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  I think that, in principle, many of the Zettelkasten models can be applied in a visual context. The only thing that changes is the language used, graphic elements instead of words.

  One idea I have annotated into my "Visual Zettelkasten Note" if I could take inspiration from Christopher Alexander Pattern work in this context. Again, never developed this idea.

  I think that @Edmund has developed much more ideas in this field :-)

  Another guy much visual oriented is Zsolt: https://www.youtube.com/@VisualPKM

  Something inspiring can be found from Maggie Appleton, too. I remember that, for examples, cited Jacob Collier process in music as reconducibile to something like the zettelkasten thought process: not really having a zettelkasten, but creating connecting thoughts.

  There are some tools more visual oriented, like Excalidraw or Canvas plugin for Obsidian, or even Scrintal. Searching for practical use of these tools can inspire.
• GeoEng51

  May 16

  @andang76 said:
  There are some tools more visual oriented, like Excalidraw or Canvas plugin for Obsidian, or even Scrintal. Searching for practical use of these tools can inspire.

  Side note: visual tools like Excalidraw also available in Logseq.
• Andy

  May 16

  @sajjadkhavari said:

  As someone engaged in artistic work and in need of new sources of inspiration, do you think it is possible to adopt an approach similar to the Zettelkasten system—one that is used for writing—for visual or image-based projects?

  I’m very curious to know what systems you all use for content creation and even for other creative projects. Do you use the Zettelkasten method for these purposes, or have you chosen an entirely different system?

  @Sascha's first trait of a Zettelkasten listed in his introduction is "it's hyper-texual". Around here, the Zettelkasten method/system is (hyper-)text-centric.

  @Hailtothekym asked about "Zettelkasten for Architecture or Visual Output in general?" (September 2022). In that discussion we mentioned a few media asset management apps (but there are many others) for personal image reference libraries and how to integrate them with typical Zettelkasten apps. My philosophy, as I mentioned in that discussion, is to treat the Mac filesystem as the core of my media asset management, quite like the philosophy in Douglas Barone's classic blog post "File System Infobase Manager", but extended to non-text assets, and aiming for the principle of data interoperability mentioned in the recent discussion on "future proof tools". So while the MyMind web app that @andang76 mentioned above has appealing features, it doesn't adhere to the local-filesystem-infobase data-interoperability philosophy that I follow.

  So, just as it is recommended that scholars have a reference manager app to manage literature references alongside their Zettelkasten software (see, e.g., @ctietze's blog post "Manage Citations for a Zettelkasten"), I would say that it is recommended that visual artists have some kind of visual media asset management software alongside their Zettelkasten software. And just as many of us strive to maximize the interoperability and portability of the data in our Zettelkasten software, the same goal is relevant to media asset management software. (Some apps that I use for this purpose include Adobe Bridge (which is free, by the way), Deep & Leap from Ironic Software; even DEVONthink, which I use with my textual note files, can be somewhat useful for images, but frankly even the macOS Finder by itself serves quite well, with its ability to tag any type of file.)

  @andang76 said:

  There are some tools more visual oriented, like Excalidraw or Canvas plugin for Obsidian, or even Scrintal. Searching for practical use of these tools can inspire.

  The kind of infinite canvas apps (or even non-infinite canvas apps such as Adobe Illustrator) that @andang76 mentioned, are, of course, a different subject from the media asset management apps that I just discussed. Canvas apps are for a more creative phase of the workflow. (As I mentioned recently in another discussion, there are different roles that we play in a creative workflow.) Media asset management is less creative, perhaps, but necessary if you collect and/or create many visual media assets.