Zettelkasten and Evergreen notes

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Note-taking and zettelkasten navel-gazing. Also see Exploring Andy’s notes for a second line of reasoning.

Writing notes

• Write notes for yourself
  • Use daily notes to close open loops and keep a journal
• Notes need to be atomic because all external context is lost
  • notes are simply components, stripped of external context, collected for future use

Free structure organization

• There is freedom in letting go of assumptions and limits. These less traveled paths will be more fulfilling and adventurous
• PKMs need limited chaos to flourish substance is more important then form
• consistent naming and coloring taxonomies lowers mental overhead

Linking notes

• atomic notes should be densely linked
• links are more valuable than the notes they connect

Deploying notes aka understanding

• there is understanding in the combination of ideas
• For information to become knowledge it should be processed

History - zettelkasten & commonplace books

• Niklas Luhmann
• History of zettelkasten (very much wip)
• Classical zettelkasten was a balanced but outdated system

See also

🥫§Note-writing systems