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Numerology in the UID...?
I'm just getting started, so forgive me if this is naturally part of the method or just ... impractical in the long run, but so far it's been my experience that people think a lot about their UID's, copying them out if they're analog, and just... it's a lot. So taking a note from Scheper's file, I started out with the… -
I am been testing things out on something and wanted to share
Recently, I started to sense that I was really struggling with using my Zettelkasten. For whatever reason, feeling some order in the midst to the chaos, seemed out of my grasp without spending a lot of time figuring things out. So, I thought to myself, "What if I just started over, and tried out folgezettel even though I… -
Resolving Conflicting Advice on Adding Novel Topics
Between reading Smart Notes, this forum, /r/Zettelkasten, and reading Luhmann's publicly available ZK, I've seen conflicting schools of thought for how I should number a slip that covers a brand new topic that doesn't yet exist in my relatively young ZK (217 notes so far). I'll ask my question in the form of a scenario:… -
The issue of lacking a work bench
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Folgezettel is Not an Outline: Luhmann's Playful Appreciation of (Dys)function
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Re: Building a Second Brain and the Zettelkasten Method
Yes, this is a great option, thanks. Another idea I had was to open one note in the project/area folder that has all the notes I'm collecting about the topic. If I need references from my ZK (with folgezettel), they can also help me out. It should be like an index note but focused only on the project/area. Although this… -
What physical steps do you take when linking existing Zettels to a new one?
It takes me about 20-30 minutes to create 1 Zettel sometimes because my linking process often involves sifting through my Slipbox to find the right note to place my note behind. As my Slipbox grows, it becomes cumbersome to keep this up. I see plenty of posts share abstract advice for linking Zettels together and… -
A fresh take on Folgezettel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHz0BrS7RWk My comment: * The issue of creating fiction into the system is that you deligate an ability to an external system that can and should be a skill of the person, you prevent the development of this skill. That decreases or perhaps even inhibits the training effect working with a ZK… -
I signed up two years ago and am finally introducing myself
Hello. My name is Mike Kramer. Two years ago, I made a very low-effort comment on this forum, but I never introduced myself. I first heard of the Zettelkasten Method by reading Ahrens's book. Through it, I discovered Christian and Sascha. From studying them, I realized that, just as the hardest part of GTD is… -
New here! Starting up the Zettelkasten.
Hallo zusammen! I am a german actuary in his early forties with a doctorate in (pure) mathematics. I like to read and think about what I read. I want to learn the Zettelkasten Method to help me with that, to curate lines of thought in my (many) areas of interest, make new connections, and see what comes up over time. If…