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Specificity of "top level" categories
I'm following Bob Doto's advice and using Luhmann's numbering scheme, which in effect imposes a tree structure on top of a more free-form linking structure. My top-level titles are weird: * 1.5: The brain is expensive. * 3.3: Republic of Letters letters were often sent multi-hop * 4.3: Russian fairy tales are constructed… -
Luhmann's random browsing
In @Sascha's nice translation of “Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen” (much thanks!), Luhmann speaks much of randomness in ways that are not clear to me. I've read somewhere that I can no longer find – bad note-taker! bad! – that Luhmann would sometimes browse the Zettelkasten with no fixed purpose, moving about it… -
Remindered: A New Term for Cognitive Architecture - And Why UIDs Enable Cognitive Breadcrumbing
I scratched out a new musing exploring of a new verb that (I think) I made up. I'm calling I it "remindered"—the architectural act of being triggered back into a cognitive context at exactly the right moment, not just reminded of a task. chrisokeefe.io/remindered We have reminders. We have remembering. But we don't have a… -
From digital to paper-based
Warning: long post ahead. Since a number of months, and certainly for about a year ahead I am transferring my Zettelkasten from digital to paper. It will also start using Luhmann-like IDs. The below text is partly from my own task management and thinking of how to do this. I wanted to share it in case anyone has comparable… -
Re: Remindered: A New Term for Cognitive Architecture - And Why UIDs Enable Cognitive Breadcrumbing
All interesting commentary. Luhmann felt the UID was completely meaningless. Just a means to know where to place and find a slip in the slip box. Not to say each user cannot assign their own meanings. -
Hear my incoherent ramblings about Zettelkasten to fall asleep to #ASMR
https://youtu.be/fQryiKaNmzE?si=H9m3PZNLg_AHTySf&t=5275 Protesilaos Stavrou had me for a 2.5h 'interview' format and at the linked time of 1:27h we started to talk about Zettelkasten: * how you pronounce it * what goes inside * sidebar about Luhmann's theory, a summary made up on a whim * externalizing thought to discover… -
Zothero / Pandoc / Marked2 - different results
Hi everyone, I need your knowledge on citing with Pandoc. Basic conditions: I use The Archive with Zotero and cite with APA7. For searching I use Alfred with Zothero, also with APA7. Specifically, my problem is that citations are displayed differently, although both tools use APA7. If I use Zothero, for example, it looks… -
Why a Zettlekasten Has No Hierarchy
At the top of a hierarchy one can find the hierarchy’s concept of truth. Is thinking possible without a hierarchy? Hierarchy provides order; without it, there is disorder. How can disorder generate knowledge? • A zettle has one or more references to its sources (hierarchy/ truth). • A zettle without a source has… -
Keeping Own Ideas in Zettelkasten?
Reading a first book (e.g. "How to take smart notes" from Sönke Ahrens ) is easy. With a set of key terms (e.g. Permanent Notes) and some basic rules you can start your Zettelkasten. Reading a second book is more difficult. An example: In "How to Make Notes and Write" Dan Allosso writes, I applied this concept to my own… -
Back to Bear
Funny as how @GeoEng51 's thread came just as I was conducting similar thinking. So, on my end: after yet another long attempt to get Obsidian to work for me, I'm yet again back in Bear. I was looking at devising a one-all, be-all end tool for all my needs. The idea was: capture, journal, mull ideas and create all at the…