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Share your ZK plans for 8 MAY - 14 May?
"Factfulness is the stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts." - Hans Rosling, 1948-2017. What is knowledge but the love of the facts? WAYWOW Claim what you 'intend' to do this week. How do we know you are here? You have to say something, and here is a low-risk place to… -
Zettelkasting Eufriction
Hi everyone, I've been moved by a discussion fragment in another thread1. Two things captured my attention. First was the writing and use of humor to deliver the message. The second idea that swirled out of the Ambassador of Cool was the notion of eufriction. @ZettelDistraction lifted it from Bob Doto2, but it would have… -
Re: Why Categories for Your Note Archive are a Bad Idea
Shucks, thank you @Will for your kind words. Will do. Yes, sub-category notes are structure notes, and I had those in the previous system, where the categories broke down and I needed to insert new category notes (AKA structure notes) under the existing top-level categories. Apologies, I must have changed my indexing after… -
About tags...again.
Hi there! tl;dr First, I want to thank you for your topics that brought to life about Zettelkasten method. I was inspired by your posts and I decided to register to ask for your opinion since you have run this method for some times. I don't know if this was discussed before in the manner I want to present it, but if it was… -
Re: Share with us what is happening in your ZK this week. July 5, 2024
I don't remember Epstein discussing wicked problems. If you see a connection, please share it. My note is a definition of the term as I understand it. I wrote it in the format using the IBIS model. --- UUID: ›[[202406260935]] cdate: 06-26-2024 09:35 AM tags: #definition #IBIS --- What are Wicked Problems Subatomic: The… -
Zettelkasten for scientific research
Hi everyone! I'm a computer science student, struggling with note-taking (read: I'm not taking any notes). I'm trying this Zottelkasten graph-based method to improve and motivate myself. The main reason why I usually don't take notes is that I have a pile of wonderful, painfully written, notebooks in my shelf... that is… -
Re: Why Categories for Your Note Archive are a Bad Idea
@ZettelDistraction I've been following your discussion of category notes both here and here. Interesting, brain-stunning, and thought-provoking, as usual. The semantics of zettelkasting is arcane and convoluted. We'll see how your shift away from folgezettel-style titled category notes to an alphabetical index plays out as… -
Re: The Nature of Links
It all depends—it's just me. I'm no expert. I tend to but not always link towards a definition with little linking outbound. Not always. About half the time, I link to examples. I place simple definitions in line with the tag #definition. I tend not to use tags for things that can be easily searched using a full-text… -
Re: Zettel Crafting Checklist v.3
I don't use most of the marginalia pictured above. I rarely have the luxury of marking in physical books anymore. I'm spoiled by my university library, World Cat, ILL, Kindle, Scribd, The Google, and the material you guys post here. I have considered using different color highlights to indicate marginalia. 74.7% of my… -
Re: Developping my writting skills and foreign languages : the lexicon tool
@Loni Nice article! I really liked how you presented the ideas. I find it interesting that we arrived at a similar structure for Zettels on definitions: * Title. Format: [Term] - [Context] - Definition. * Definition.* Grammatical information, plural form, and context in the format: [(N/A/V)/(C/U/T/I)] plural/singular…