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#zettelkasten #permanent-notes

Zettelkasten

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOSZOCoqOo8 by [[Shu Omi]].
• In [[Roam]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljyo_WAJevQ
• https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box/
• Steps
  • Take [[literature]] notes. Information I don’t want to forget or think I can use later. Ideally no copy/paste.
  • Take [[bibliographical]] notes.
  • Make [[permanent]] notes. Go over notes in previous notes and think about how they relate to my thinking, research, interest. Find meaninful connections. This builds a web of knowledge.
  • Find keywords: think about "when will this be useful", "when and how will I use this idea". Ideally they relate to topics I’m working on.
• Take fleeting notes: this is just an idea log.

• #public
• Process log
  • Sorting through on April 21st, 2020 while recording a video. Spent about 20 minutes to process 17 linked references. Feels a bit slow, but I see some interesting structure emerging.
• Related concepts
  • Evergreen Notes [[Note taking]] zettel
• Questions
  • ​How to position this note in relationship with [[Note taking]]? Merge with Zettelkasten? #p
• Invented by Niklas Luhmann
  • Original writings
    • http://luhmann.surge.sh/learning-how-to-read
    • http://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes
  • Videos
    • Niklas Luhmann – 2016 – Ich denke ja nicht alles allein (Zettelkasten als Zweitgedächtnis)
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbncA7bDl70
• Secondary literature
  • Books
    • Book: "How to take smart notes", Sonke Ahrens
    • Die Zettelkasten methode: Kontrolliere dein Wissen
      • by Sascha Fast and Christian Tietze
      • Souveränität ist die Schlüsselkompetenz in unserer modernen Welt im Umgang mit Wissen und Informationen. Dabei sind Schnelligkeit, Sicherheit und Flexibilität die entscheidenden Komponenten, um diese Souveränität für sich zu gewinnen. Die Zettelkastenmethode ist eine flexible und individuell anpassbare Technik mit Wissen umzugehen. Sie ist auf jeden System mit ein paar Handgriffen realisierbar, ohne dass man komplizierte Programme verstehen muss. In ihrer Einfachheit ist sie unübertroffen und ist der (fast) unsichtbare Helfer für dich im Umgang mit dem Wissen. Niklas Luhmann, einer der produktivsten Wissenschaftler aller Zeiten, sagte einmal, er müsse gar nicht schreiben, das mache der Zettelkasten für ihn. Als ich das Prinzip hinter seinem Zettelkasten, zusammen mit Christian Tietze, in die moderne Welt der digitalen Technik übertrug, war ich überrascht, wie viel Wahrheit in Luhmanns Aussage steckt.
  • Blog posts
    • https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NfdHG6oHBJ8Qxc26s/the-zettelkasten-method-1#Very_Short_Summary
• Places to discuss
  • Zettelkasten.de
  • TakingNoteNow blog, lots of great insights around [[Note taking]] and Zettelkasten, also from many earlier than Niklas Luhmann
    • http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/
• Theory
  • Grunded theory from Ralf Westphal
    • http://www.groundedtheory.com/what-is-gt.aspx
  • Rich picture from Ralf Westphal
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_picture<span pull id=‘3XnyvB-Ij’/>
  • Zettelkasten as a lattice of thoughts from Zettelkasten.de by Gerrit Scholle
    • https://zettelkasten.de/posts/lattice-of-thoughts/
    • read February 27th, 2020 March 31st, 2020
• Dangers / pitfalls
  • • Dangers with Zettelkasten #[[Note taking]] #p
  • https://clerestory.netlify.com/zk1/
  • He warns against the seduction of densely interconnecting ideas across domains, because it can create mental models so complex that they obscure reality and discourage reality-testing.
  • Collector’s Fallacy - trying to capture all of the original author’s intention, instead of relying on my own voice and understanding. Pasting too much raw material. Worried about missing something.
• Interfaces
  • Hierarchical (like Roam)
    • Writing using outlines - one sentence per bullet, hierarchy. Much easier to move things up and down (​but danger of disconnected text, like I found sometimes with Scrivener when I wrote each paragraph as a stand-alone piece) - but the hierarchy helps, because when you move something that has children, they come along. Can also use folding. #bullets
  • Visual
    • • Different formats - - - -
  • Knowledge Building (with rise aboves etc) and [[Zettelkasten-p]] #Newsletter #juxtaposition
• Tools
  • Apps
    • Roam
      • Roam as a Slip box from David K. Laing
        • https://davidklaing.com/blog/2020/02/01/roam-as-a-slip-box.html
        • Distinguishing two kinds of notes
          • literature notes (paraphrases of ideas and arguments encountered during reading)
          • permanent notes ("original" thoughts/insights)
        • Both types of notes are written in publishable-quality prose, and each note is meant to include enough detail that it could be read and understood on its own.
        • Workflow
          • writes all his notes on Daily notes, tags litnote/permnote (sometimes in the same paragraph).
      • https://shime.sh/how-i-apply-zettelkasten-to-roam #Newsletter #Zettelkasten
      • • [[Zettelkasten-p]] #video by Shu Omi #roam-workflow
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOSZOCoqOo8
    • • The Variable Schedule Reward Zettelkasten. A strategy for Memexing Twitter (to get better ideas, and build new relationships)
    • Devonthink
      • http://www.organizingcreativity.com/2013/09/luhmanns-zettelkasten-with-devonthink/
    • TinderBox by Beck Tench
      • https://www.becktench.com/blog/2018/11/12/using-zettelkasten-and-tinderbox-to-document-a-literature-review
    • Notion, moving from The Archive from Zettelkasten.de by Ralf Westphal (@ralfw)
      • https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/404/moving-on#latest
      • https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/446/views-of-a-zk#latest
      • Twitter
        • https://twitter.com/houshuang/status/1232239406452531200 pull #myTwitterThreads
      • Different formats
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      • Highlights ease of formatting, including images, and viewing the notes in different layouts.
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    • Hugo (h/t Christian Tietze)
      • https://bryanapperson.com/blog/creating-a-zettelkasten-with-hugo/
    • Vim (h/t Christian Tietze) based on vimwiki
      • https://www.bitchute.com/video/wlFZJ8ltQTgg/
    • The Archive by André Chaperon
      • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtGCJRJqOVeJUkPkcdHwELw
    • • org-mode by Jethro Kuan
    • https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/zettelkasten_with_org/
  • Web-based tools
    • zettel.io some kind of public Zettelkasten with Twitter integration?
      • https://zettel.io/kasten
• Workflow
  • From Zettelkasten.de (discordian) on how to use Zettelkasten to create lectures
    • https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/865/introduction-teaching-using-zettelkasten-and-paskian-entailment-meshes#latest
    • ​There is a rich discussion in this thread that I haven’t processed, worth coming back to Resurface March 26th, 2020
    • The inspiration comes from close colleagues historian father, who had this system of writing his materials on perforated index cards and then using a steel rod to ‘fish out’ materials for a given lecture from a giant archive drawer. Basically, he had a mechanical tagging system and could prepare a lecture in a moment’s notice with it.
    • A coherence is set of three or more topics with the curious property that any topic in a given coherence is entailed by the remaining topics. For example, the Topics {Function, Data, Transformation} form a coherence, since concepts of Function and Data imply a Transformation (of the data), Transformation and Data imply a Function (specifying the transformation) and Transformation and Function imply Data (to be transformed).
    • The idea seems to boil down to this: if the student knows some of the topics, an explanation for the unknown topics is implied by the coherence.
    • Gordon Pasks Conversation Theory Pask arranges teaching materials into Entailment Meshes, which are build out of Topics (comparable to zettels) and arranged (mainly) into overlapping Coherences.
  • Getting a sense of the power of Daily Notes. The way I am setting up my [[Zettelkasten-p]] now feels… daunting. I feel reticent to add to it, because I want the notes in there to be "permanent". Maybe this is a similar dynamic to formalism considered harmful? To support Z1: levels of processing,
• Videos of workflows
  • • The Archive by André Chaperon - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtGCJRJqOVeJUkPkcdHwELw
  • [[Zettelkasten-p]] #video by Shu Omi #roam-workflow
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOSZOCoqOo8
• People/connections
  • Christian Wahl
    • My interest in [[Zettelkasten-p]] lies in the connection between my use of systems theory and the personal aspect of using digital media.

zettelkasten

• tags: [[note taking]]

"box of notes"

He wrote only on one side of each card to eliminate the need to flip them over, and he limited himself to one idea per card so they could be referenced individually.

– How To Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking and …

-Zettelkasten — How One German Scholar Was So Freakishly Productive

• Zettelkasten: It’s Like GTD for Writing and Here’s Why You Should Consider It

It feels a bit like the philosophy of [[tiddlers]], to me.

The purpose of recording and organising information is so that it can be used again. The value of recorded information is directly proportional to the ease with which it can be re-used.

– Philosophy of tiddlers - TiddlyWiki

Notes / steps

1. Literature notes
2. Reference notes
3. Permanent notes
4. Review and repeat

1. Capture ideas in the form of fleeting and/or reference notes.
2. Turn these captures into individual main notes.
3. Establish connections between the ideas recorded in these main notes.
4. Keep track of developing trains of thought in hub notes, structure notes, and indexes.
5. Turn these trains of thought into writing

– [[A System for Writing]]

Digital Zettelkasten

I use [[org-roam]] for this.

Does it make sense to have a timestamp in the filename?

• How important is to have datetime info in the filenames? - Random - Org-roam
• A digital approach to Luhmann’s Zettelkasten (Slip Box) | Tevin Zhang

zettelkasten

The Zettelkasten method is a method for note-taking and resource management. It is what I’m trying to do with all these org-roam files, but I feel like I’m failing!

Notes in Zettelkasten should be:

atomic : notes should pertain to one specific topic

connected : there should be clear lines between related notes

I need to start using org-roam more for personal notes as well as knowledge notes.

Resources

• Zettelkasten knowledge and info management • Zettelkasten Method
• Create Zettel from Reading Notes According to the Principle of Atomicity • Ze…

Tools

• Obsidian

Ways to improve use of Zettelkasten with Roam

• Capture fleeting notes (optional)
• Connect literature notes (notes on books, articles, etc.) with ideas and reflections
• Create reflection, “argument”, notes. Use the connection between notes to generate new ideas (see “permanent notes”)
• Note to self: you’re already doing this! Notes like “Marx” etc. are permanent notes! You just need to be willing to actually fill them out and notice when they interest you! :)

What is a Zettelkasten?

In German, Zettelkasten means "slip box." It is both a method of [personal knowledge management]({{< ref "personal knowledge management" >}}) and a physical (or digital) system you maintain. The method was popularized by German scholar Niklas Luhmann who used it as a "conversation partner" to help write hundreds of articles and books. To create a Zettelkasten, you need two compartments: literature notes and Zettels. Literature notes are just bibliographic information. Niklas Luhmann wrote the citations of resources on index cards. I keep my references in Zotero. Zettels are what you will see in my digital garden as 🌳 evergreen notes. They are not notes I would take while reading something. Rather, they are insights and my own thoughts on what I read or in general. Zettels should be one idea, called an atomic idea. Remember: Niklas Luhmann wrote his Zettels on index cards. Although they are a tidied up atomic idea, they are not immutable.

As you write Zettels, you create links between them. The more Zettels you have, and the more links exist between them, the easier it is to see where clusters of ideas form. This is the "conversation partner" aspect of the Zettelkasten. When clusters form, it shows you what you’re interested in and where you have a lot of information already created. From there, you can combine the Zettels and use them to express something larger and more complex.

You can learn more about Zettelkasten at zettelkasten.de. I also like how Bob Doto explains the Zettelkasten.