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Planning for serendipity
I am currently reading "Serendipity - It doesn't happen by accident" by David Cleevely (https://www.conductingserendipity.com). D. Cleevely was and is a driving force behind Cambridge's innovation power. He claims that while we cannot plan serendipity, we certainly can set up structures and habits to make it very likely.… -
What's happening in your ZK this month, October 2026?
The idea: a general chat about what we're working on currently. --- Evermore increasing expectations at work leave me with limited time, but especially limited energy, to work on my Zettelkasten. But ironically, I am using what time and energy I have to work on finding a new job. So right now my notes are all about… -
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Anchored Model Layering • Zettelkasten Method
Anchored Model Layering • Zettelkasten MethodHaving an idea is not the actual eureka moment. It is the long work that follows. Anchored model layering is a tool for that work: relate many overlapping models to each other through a shared anchor, and you get one meta-model you can keep extending across long thinking… -
Anyone creating any interesting plugins?
Playing around with this feature... I am using "Search titles only" and "remove blank lines" that i created using AI. -
Using The Archive with Obsidian - Chapter 732
Hi, all Forgive my starting a new thread on this, but two days of my life have gone by fighting with this issue (including the blind avenue of consulting AI, more fool me...). Here's the set up I'm trying to create: * A single folder of notes, my Zettelkasten, currently in .txt format but if I have to batch convert to .md,… -
Re: Planning for serendipity
Thank you both for fast and dense feedback. When reading it, I realized that I started filling my Zettelkasten one year ago, at age 61, and do not even have as many as 400 zettels. From a "keep it simple"-perspective (@Edmund!), this is fine. However, I would need to transfer decades of material on my hard disk and beyond… -
Re: What's happening in your ZK this month, October 2026?
Lies within a range defined by Fin. -
Re: Anchored Model Layering • Zettelkasten Method
It's a metamodel because it's a model that allows to express other models, such as the endurance model developed in the article -
Context Before Knowledge?
I've been reading about Zettelkasten, PKM, note-taking workflows, and more recently the interaction between personal knowledge systems and AI. The more I explore these topics, the more I find myself wondering whether we sometimes start one layer too high. Most discussions focus on: knowledge capture note-making linking…