Also called “project Zettelkasten” on this blog sometimes.
We identified two kinds of Zettelkasten designs: This depends on the design of your Zettelkasten. Yes and no: the first note can have a special role, but it doesn’t have to. This kind of planning in advance is unnecessary. Maybe think about the 5 most important topics in your life first, then write amazing notes about them and let the Zettelkasten grow.
You may want to figure out the content that best facilitates growth of meaningful clusters. Feeling lost can kill initial momentum easily, so let’s discuss what you can do to fill the void at the beginning.Īnd yet there’s danger to hit a road block.
Zettelkasten boostnote how to#
Without a predefined set of categories, you may feel you’re left with even less of an idea how to start. Planning categories is hard, and it’s a waste of time. We repeatedly advise everybody to just start with anything and ditch planning of categories, for example, to let order emerge instead. Ditch prospective planning Photo credit: My daughter drawing again by Charles Stanford. Most notes don’t have much weight on their own, not even the very first one as I want to show. There’s no need for engineering or up-front design. Getting it right first seems so important to some folks that they get stuck completely – paralysis by analysis.
Zettelkasten boostnote archive#
Starting your Zettelkasten note archive can be confusing at first. How do you start working with your Zettelkasten? What’s the best first note? All that sounds nice, but naturally you have to start somewhere. This process is fruitful and potentially never-ending. Using your Zettelkasten should help remember stuff and spark new ideas which will be stored as Zettel notes again. The Zettelkasten Method is an ideation tool, though. The Zettelkasten note archive is the storage of your knowledge.
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