Notes from Crashcourse Zettelkaste for Beginners
Source Step 1..4 from Zettelkasten - Taking Smart Notes - Notes from a video by Joshua Meyer
Comment: Why does it matter to have a separate Literature note and a permanent note?
- to capture where a thought came from
Further note types beside Literature notes and permanent notes
Fleeting Notes
- throw away notes/thoughts that just came on the fly
- difference to literature notes is more that they are more our own thoughts
- and they are note yet permanent notes because they are note yet phrased in high quality
- also for notes that just act as reminders…
- the can be thrown away after processing
Project Notes
- Notes connected with projects.
- Later on one can recheck and extract further permanent notes
- used to not pollute my permanent notes
Map of Content
Some guidlines
- write the note for yourself
- write for long term usage
- be consistent in processing
- make notes atomic
- extract the common concept
- comment: makes the note more compatible with other notes (but might also dilute the note)
- use sentences as titles
- forces to bring key insight to the surface and enforces concept of atomic notes
- makes it better embeddable in floating text
- use links inside the text (so my chapter with Linking is not yet the best approach)
- think of connections with other notes
- ensure each notes is easily reachable
Templates, tags, folders
Folders
- to distinguish private and public areas
- to bundle topics
- to have project related topics
- see PARA Method Notes
Tags
- for note type (Fleeting, Permanent, Literature,…)
- for status
- work with nested tags eg. note type/status
Observations
- When working with tags I can better visualize that in the graph view of Obsidian (vs. working with folders)
- to further improve that beside using tags on can also add something like }b for book note to the notes title
Linking
- Developing a Zettelkasten
- Zettelkasten - Taking Smart Notes - Notes from a video by Joshua Meyer
- How to take Smart Notes - Key Insights
- MOC Building a 2nd brain
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