Zettlekasten
Invented by Nicholas Lumen, this is a knowledge management system that has gained popularity in recent years due to How to Take Smart Notes (which I haven’t read.)
It’s a series of small notes (Notes-Should-Be-Atomic) linked together. Lumen used index cards and created a network of interconnected notes, using an alphanumeric system to get paths and see clusters of thought.
Strictly, this is not a Zettlekasten, it is a wiki. But the principles have helped me to design it. And you need to avoid Tool-Fundamentalism anyway.
It’s also important to avoid the Collectors-Fallacy.
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Tool Fundamentalism
This is the idea that you have to follow every method to the letter instead of finding what works for...
Brain Pickings
A blog by [[Maria-Popova]], that delves into interesting books. The way it is written with lots of links is like...
Tidying is exploratory
Whilst it is important to be neat and tidy in your life, in your creative life [[Austin-Kleon]] advocates for a...
embrace-friction-in-your-systems
As much as we may dream that we can automate everything in our lives, you need a bit of friction....
notes-should-have-a-declarative-title
From [[Morgenau]], this is the idea that notes in a [[Zettlekasten]] system should have a definite sentence as a summary....