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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: Is it better to have separate ZK vault for different purpose? Like for Technical engineering notes
Thanks, Sascha! I think I like - time will tell - a hierarchy to tags. For instance, cities could be tagged something like #US-Texas-Austin or #UK-London. Something that's really fun with The Archive, though, is seeing how much organization can be effected without complexity. I don't want to overthink things. -
Re: Is it better to have separate ZK vault for different purpose? Like for Technical engineering notes
I use the tag "#Structure" on all my structure notes as well. To be useful in a search, you probably want to have other tags that narrow down the search. You don't want to search for structure notes and then find you have hundreds of them. You want to find the one structure note that covers a specific topic you are… -
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…