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What's happening in your ZK this month, June 2026?

wjenkins81wjenkins81
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This month I can use a framework I've found to organize and connect a range of older notes.

For some time I've had notes about different kinds of biases, confusions, illusions, and fallacies, which are usually referred to as cognitive biases, or sometimes emotional biases.

Notes from two books in particular (The Art of Thinking Clearly, and Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio) drove me to look for a way to organize and link these notes, if I could just find the right framework.

Thankfully, I've found The Cognitive Bias Codex, which groups the different ideas together under 4 categories and 20 sub-categories, giving me a framework to make structure/hub notes:

I am now revisiting the older notes that I couldn't figure out how to organize, and am crafting a nice little network of connected knowledge. I'm sure this will end up connecting to many other things in my ZK which I hadn't thought of before, so it's a great discovery and I'm happy about it.

What's happening in your ZK this month?

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  • harrharr

    I'm still fascinated by the origins of Zettelkasten, in particular the history of hypertext. I'm currently working from the point of view that much of the zettelkasten discourse is actually a hypertext discourse that is oblivious of its roots.

    The cognitive bias codex fits nicely, because it's an example of the kind of visualization and navigation that hypertext makes possible. Thanks for sharing!

  • tomptomp

    @wjenkins81 said:

    Thankfully, I've found The Cognitive Bias Codex, which groups the different ideas together under 4 categories and 20 sub-categories, giving me a framework to make structure/hub notes:

    I am now revisiting the older notes that I couldn't figure out how to organize, and am crafting a nice little network of connected knowledge. I'm sure this will end up connecting to many other things in my ZK which I hadn't thought of before, so it's a great discovery and I'm happy about it.

    Very interesting, thanks for posting the image.

  • jtmuskyjtmusky

    This bias wiki is neat! Now to go down a rabbit whole.

  • wjenkins81wjenkins81

    @jtmusky said:
    This bias wiki is neat! Now to go down a rabbit whole.

    Yes, a rabbit hole with many different entry points! If I was only focusing on just this, it would keep be occupied for months. Instead, I will work on them more gradually over the course of time, one bias at a time, while working on other things and trying to connect it all.

    It will be a long time before I have to ask, "what could I add to my ZK next?".

  • wjenkins81wjenkins81

    @harr said:
    I'm still fascinated by the origins of Zettelkasten, in particular the history of hypertext. I'm currently working from the point of view that much of the zettelkasten discourse is actually a hypertext discourse that is oblivious of its roots.

    The cognitive bias codex fits nicely, because it's an example of the kind of visualization and navigation that hypertext makes possible. Thanks for sharing!

    It's like a super-mind-map, but with clickable links instead of only being to look at. I admire the years of work that people have put into it.

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