What is happening in your ZK journey this week? 2025.06.02
Swimming with Ideas
This is another opportunity to share your current project with fellow forum members. Add to this discussion by sharing your experience with your zettelkasten journey. Share with us what you're learning. Sharing helps us clarify our goals and visualize our thinking. And sometimes, a conversation sparks a magical moment where we can dive into an idea worth exploring. I'd love to hear more from you. 🫵🏼
Here is my report on why I'm here and my current ZK work themes and ideas:
- I'm here because of the community.
- I'm here to share and learn.
- I'm currently working on my backlog of incomplete and half-baked zettels.
Books I'm reading or will be reading this week:
- Duhigg, Charles. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. First large print edition, Random House Large Print, 2024.
- Robertson, Donald. How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World. First edition, St. Martin’s Press, 2024.
Zettelkasting Soundtrack:
Olivia Belli
Runar Blesvik
Saah
Carla Bley
★★★★★
This rolling 15-day zettel production is produced by a script for attachment to my daily journaling template. I use Bear to keep my journaling separate from my work on knowledge.
Please let me know if you would like to review, discuss, or provide feedback on these notes.
My 15 day zettel production
I hope my contribution is helpful, and you have even better ideas.
Will Simpson
My peak cognition is behind me. One day soon, I will read my last book, write my last note, eat my last meal, and kiss my sweetie for the last time.
My Internet Home — My Now Page
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Comments
Hello, I just joined the ZK forum and have been using Archive for a week -- it's terrific! I settled on this system because it's so reminiscent of Notational Velocity, which I used for years in an academic setting. I'm currently writing a curriculum to accompany my work as a YMCA Livestrong (cancer exercise) instructor. Question: I purchased the Archive license for my laptop, to use it on another computer (desktop), is a separate license required? Thanks for any feedback!
Hello and welcome to the forum! I believe you can use your current license for The Archive for any computer which you own and for your use. Clearly, if you wanted to install it on multiple computers so that others could use it, you should get a license for each user. But @ctietze or @Sascha can correct me, if I am wrong
Thanks so much for the prompt response!
I appreciate the feedback! However I have entered the registration name and license code into my desktop Archive program, and the Register link returns an "Invalid License Code" message. It says "the combination of name and license code did not match. Maybe you have got a typo? Try Again". Multiple (careful) attempts, same result. But at least I can access Archive on the computer on which it was downloaded and received the access code when purchased. Paul
I replied in https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/851/deactivate-license before I saw this, hope it helps
Author at Zettelkasten.de • https://christiantietze.de/
It‘s the same for me. And my backlog is growing:
Edmund Gröpl
100% organic thinking. Less than 5% AI-generated ideas.
Not exactly the same. My proofing oven contains 44 notes out of a total of 4351. The notes I am focused on are in various raw capture states. My strategy is to dedicate one Pomodoro each day to incrementally advance the notes in my proofing oven.
Will Simpson
My peak cognition is behind me. One day soon, I will read my last book, write my last note, eat my last meal, and kiss my sweetie for the last time.
My Internet Home — My Now Page
Oh, I never sent the reply:
Been knocked out with a cold for about a week in early June. I picked up work on auto-completion in The Archive to support wiki links and am testing it on my machine. Needed some more work, but should ship in the following day(s)!
Zettelkasten for Programmers workshop planning progressed a bit, an hour here and there. By now it's clear that I want to spend more time on this after shipping the next feature for The Archive so that I can finalize the plan.
Author at Zettelkasten.de • https://christiantietze.de/
I do love these posts. It helps me to stay accountable. Is there a reply format that's best?
I haven't finished the template for the readwise API in ooREXX. It's easy to pull down the notes, now I have to loop over and do the string replace for a supplied template and then save it as a .md file. I think then I'll be finished with my side project of importing those notes into the Archive.
No, there is no specific reply format. I use a simple template to create these threads as a way to keep myself accountable. This makes it easy for me and lowers the friction. The next one is coming up soon.
Let us know how importing from Readwise goes. I tried Readwise once and found it rather uninteresting. I get my highlights into markdown notes differently. You are getting more out of Readwise than I did.
Will Simpson
My peak cognition is behind me. One day soon, I will read my last book, write my last note, eat my last meal, and kiss my sweetie for the last time.
My Internet Home — My Now Page