Zettelkasten Forum

The conversion of the ZK to an alphabetic index with a new ID Format is coming along. Obsidian can handle relinking automatically, which is a capability not available in Zettlr. Obsidian has the annoy

If there's a deep theory of Zettelkasten waiting to be discovered, I hope it's not as complicated as the mathematical definition of folgezettel and operatic lyricism. I can barely understand my todo l

slips in my ZK that touch this subject. I use Folgezettel because I like its structure, and my next available number at the "end" of my ZK is 35.0.

* It limits the length of Folgezettel to at most 4. (However, I can extend them after a period if I wanted). This tends to push me toward links and hub notes.

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 you use it. Please report back

This does mean that I will need "structure notes" (AKA "category notes"--see below) if I want to follow threads within a single note. Folgezettel are still possible

I see plenty of posts share abstract advice for linking Zettels together and implementing Folgezettel.

@ZettelDistraction has one important point: Folgezettel and Structure Notes are not mutually exclusive. I think that I never fleshed out my point of why I put them in opposition even though you can ha

How to foment Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about your Zettelkasten:

I adhere to the principle of Robert Bjork that many kinds of difficulties (read, "frictions") enhance learning. Since a Zettelkasten method is a method for, in the broadest sense, le

* Folgezettel is a very valid and perhaps necessary technique that makes working as if you have a project you are working on. However, the most important counter-argument against the validity of Folge

I use categories more or less the way Luhmann did, before the Folgezettel portion of the IDs I use. My IDs have the format

I use both simple numeric IDs (differently from Luhmann, I write 1.1 instead of 1a for a Folgezettel) and timestamps as metadata in the same Zettel, but for my physical Zettelkasten. It's a pretty rud

I like it. I stuck to the Folgezettel back then for this very reasons: I just liked it for the same reasons I used greek letters for my marginalia or wanted to collect all my notebooks in my little li

Perhaps you need ordinal notations or large cardinal axioms to ensure that you have sufficiently many IDs for your Zettelkasten. I'm not going to discourage the use of Folgezettel and timestamps of h

* While I think there is indeed a bird's eye view as well as a streets view I don't see Folgezettel to provide the streets view: Being in the streets means that you actually see what is going on in th

In Bob’s ZK, since he uses a modified Folgezettel as the primary organizational method, he is getting a richer, contextual view of his notes — just like walking down the street and noticing a café tha

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imagine, for example, that the discussion on the Folgezettel would have been so big, if Luhmann had not used it. So it is kind of refreshing to read and learn about other practitioners of the mehtod,

It isn't automatic, it's the habit that comes with deciding what the left-hand, Folgezettel portion of the ID should be. The right-hand timestamp portion is automatic. One exception is when I backdat