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Zettelkasten in Media: A Zettelkasten for Wedding Crashers
Card Indexes in Wedding Crashers While watching Wedding Crashers (2005, New Line), I noticed that John Beckwith (portrayed by Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) both have multiple card indexes in their offices in the movie. One can’t help but wondering if their work leverages one of the variety of card index… -
The Archive v1.7.15/v1.7.16
Cutting Edge release today; will roll out to the downloads page and as a Stable update release on Monday 15th if nothing bad happens. Release Notes * New: More Markdown commands now have entries in the "Format" menu so you can assign custom shortcuts. * Inline code: Cmd+Ctrl+C * Code blocks: Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+C * Link (insert… -
Field Report #3: Mini-Workflow of a YouTuber
Field Report #3: Mini-Workflow of a YouTuberHow I use my spare time when am forced to create YouTube videos and notes Read the full story here -
How to approach an "updated stance" in your Zettelkasten?
Hello Zettelkasten friends, Say you have accumulated a lot of notes from different books. But after reading the primary sources rather than the books, you now have a different view as compared to your existing atomic notes where you just relied on an author's interpretation. Do you: * Update your existing notes, even if… -
Q&A #3 - Some tips on how to write good notes
Q&A #3 - Some tips on how to write good notesAlways think of your future self as if you encounter a different person than yourself. Read the full story here -
Catpuccin Mocha Theme
Hi there, today I spent some time trying to recreate a catpuccin theme for the archive. I have used it and everything seems fine but please let me know if you see inconsistent things or colors that hurt your eyes. The theme is meant to be used as a dark style. To avoid posting a file and making you download it I'm instead… -
Building Memories
The Zettelkasten and the mind One topic that I have great interest is how we solidify our knowledge and most importantly, how we can retrieve it. The Zettelkasten uses a unique approach to keep and build new relationships between a myriad of information, but, can the Zettelkasten be used to help us learn more efficiently?… -
Re: Cardcraft And Atomicity
If we think in term of library science, I think the kind of organization that most Zettelkasten users build up is better described as a subject language. But unlike the subject languages envisioned by library science practitioners, they are mostly informal, inconsistent, and will drift over time. They are certainly neither… -
Re: Cardcraft And Atomicity
Andy, thanks for the thoughts. My orientation is naturally towards my own use and interests but I'm also trying to bring in what I have taken away from Luhmann's writings, and what I've been reading on line. I have some background in topic maps, RDF, and similar systems, and they are usually organized around… -
Re: Cardcraft And Atomicity
@tomp, I have a couple of suggestions for improvement of your framework here. First, if this framework is for your personal use, then it may be sufficient, but if it's for general use, then the variety of systems of knowledge organization could be expanded beyond what you call topics. See, for example, the various figures…