Zettelkasten and Evergreen notes connection → folgezettel → overview
Careful placement in Keyword Index gives enough friction to force one to slow down and carefully think. Where does this go in the grand scheme of things? This results in better connections.
Classical zetttelkasten makes having an overview less convenient but having one large outline (that can be folded) is by definition build for this
The first conversation is a good start, follow keywords to create an initial conversation between the notes.
This would be a start on re-reading on the use of the folgezettel. note sequences are the key to ZK, they create clusters that birth new ideas
Modern pkms don’t really need locations anymore. Every note can be connected to every other note. Still, the initial friction helps to reduce the blind collecting of useless notes. collectors fallacy
Literature notes
Bob Doto Sascha Zettelkasten.de ✂︎ Understanding Hierarchy by Translating Folgezettel and Structure Zettel
– Communication with noteboxesThese are mere externalities, which concern only how easy the card index can be used. They do not concern its functionality (Leistung). For the inner life of the card index, for the arrangement of notes or its mental history, it is most important that we decide against the systematic ordering in accordance with topics and sub-topics and choose instead a firm fixed place (Stellordnung). A system based on content, like the outline of a book) would mean that we make a decision that would bind us to a certain order for decades in advance! This necessarily leads very quickly to problems of placement, if we consider the system of communication and ourselves as capable of development. The fixed filing place needs no system. It is sufficient that we give every notecard a number which is easily seen (in or case on the left of the first line) and that we never change this number and thus the fixed place of the notecard. This decision about structure is that reduction of the complexity of possible arrangements, which makes possible the creation of high complexity in the card file and thus makes possible its ability to communicate in the first place.
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Fleeting notes
- Notes need to be somewhere, even in the mechanistic view. Logical to put them somewhere “logical”, instead of alphabetical, or just sorted by date
- the sequence helps to think about the whole. It shouldn’t be just a matter of dumping it wherever.
- It gives direction to thought, so should be an informed decision: where do I want to go?
- the sequence helps to think about the whole. It shouldn’t be just a matter of dumping it wherever.
- Collectors fallacy is real, but placing a note in the hope it will be helpful in the future an-sich is not that
- linked to the previous point, the sequence is not a shot in the dark, serendipity based hoping-for-the-best. It is an informed placement
- Birds-eye view of the whole
- dated naming scheme is one way of doing things
- ugly AF
- The goal is to be able to see things → master structure zettel is preferable, and possible in this day and age
- dated naming scheme is one way of doing things
- Initial placement of a note might not be where it is most useful (key-argument from S), but it is (should be) still a good start
- It gives a place in the whole, which was the basic idea. But it also help to consider other (your own) viewpoints. Why here?
- Even if you use it elsewhere, it doesn’t make your initial reasoning a waste. - every permanent note is a (potential) structure zettel
- It gives a place in the whole, which was the basic idea. But it also help to consider other (your own) viewpoints. Why here?