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Creating a Personal History in your Zettelkasten
I have been working on a Zettelkasten for about 2.5 years. One of my purposes in starting a ZK was to capture brief memories or "snapshots" of my past, with a focus partly on what happened and partly on how I felt (at the time) or feel (now) about that event. I don't pursue this in any organized way, either in relation to… -
Re: Two Questions about Zettel Structure and MetaData
Thanks, @Will . This is similar to what @Loni suggested and I will adapt to suit my use cases. You are so right here. When I try to import my zettels into both NotePlan and Logseq, they treat the first line as being the actual item for the link - keeping in mind that my first line is just a UID and title, as shown in my… -
Re: What are you working on? December 29, 2022
@Will I like Hanlon's Razor (hadn't heard it before but it is spot on) and Occam's Razor (which I apply in my engineering work all the time). I'm interested to see what you have written about probabilistic thinking (your idea of what this means may be different than mine). Probability and risk are concepts that I work with… -
Re: Notes useful in the short term
I am in flux about this sort of thing. As a tl;dr, * The principles I hold myself to are "use the right tool for the job", "encode no obligations in the Zettelkasten" and "don't worry about throwing extra stuff in the Zettelkasten":* If data has a schema, use a database or spreadsheet. * If I begin to feel guilt about a… -
Re: Just started, already lost in clutter. How do you prevent to get lost in so many notes and links?
@IvanFerrero Hi Ivan and welcome to the forum. Your questions are entirely normal for someone new starting out. Trying to figure out how to "organize" (or at least, access) your notes takes some experimentation to find a way that works for you (i.e., is sensible and logical for the way you think). The Zettelkasten system…