#### [[Zettelkasten]] ![[20220514_204250889_iOS.png]] >[!note] >1. //Highlight, Note and Summarize. Create LitNote with atomic ideas. Link to PermNotes and LitNotes. (Use Question List, ACE, CODE) (Check out EBrain for ontology to specify link-relations) > 1. Litnote is extracted from highlights of Readwise if possible, put into citeable page, and then broken up into atomic ideas so as to preserve bib. Transformational. If longform and not from Readwise, Cornell and Meta the citeable, break atomically. >2. //Jot. Create explanded PermNotes with atomic ideas. Link. >3. //Review and surf. Output as needed. Visualize. Move literature notes to literature notes folder, but retain links. Process fleets from things to create atomic. Then link. Importance to try to abstract the ideas to make them my own with permanent atomic. Summarization of lit vs my own thinking. Instead of collecting ideas. (this is why lit has own folder) As advancing, the relationships are also new and interesting to establish and review links. ![[Pasted image 20230504075843.png]] ![[Pasted image 20230504080242.png]] ![[Pasted image 20230502172350.png]] \* You create fleeting notes to capture ideas as they happen. They should be short-lived notes that don't become the main store of your knowledge. \* You create literature notes as your read material. These should include your own thoughts on highlighted passages, not just quotes and highlights on their own. \* You organise your fleeting notes as permanent notes into your 'Slip Box' (taken from the original use index cards). Each note should contain a single idea and should be understandable when reading in isolation. \* You want to avoid burying knowledge in large notes as it makes it hard to glance at and link to other notes in a concise way. \* Notes are linked to other notes which support your ideas. This also help the discovery of new ideas. \* You use your slip box to help you do your thinking. You want to ask it questions, find the related notes that support/oppose the arguments and find gaps or newly related information. \* You can create index notes that help you find your way around. \* Part of the process is to help your understanding by writing. With a well maintained slip box, you'll never be starting from a blank sheet. You decide what insight/question/knowledge you want to explore, and pull together the notes that give you the body of research to get you started. You shouldn't need to start a new blog post by researching, that happens prior by taking smart notes as you naturally read what you're interested in. --- 2 pass system, once in context, a second time for long-term pkm. You link every idea to every other idea, so that eventually you start to find associations you weren't intentionally looking for, and it begins to create new ideas. - @mediapathic It's a second/external brain. You using it - doubles up as learning. - @sigod Make your notes (ideas), as singular/specific/atomic as possible, densely link them (with links, tags, metadata, timestamps, attributes, relations, etc), in order to create a web of connections. Allows for easy retrieval of info, less things lost, and biggest of all, seeing connections, associations and patterns you couldn't otherwise and the serendipity of finding/coming across notes/ideas you didn't think were related. - @animeking527 The idea is to stress linking rather than folders/hierarchy - @kllian zk is not primarily for storage/recall but for creating a representation of networked thought you can interact with. - @ambient complexity zettelkasten = small notes written by you and connecting by themes. @Abdulla A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing that creates an interconnected web of thought. Its emphasis is on connection and not mere collection of ideas. - zettelkasten.de How to use? - https://shime.sh/how-i-apply-zettelkasten-to-roam - https://www.shuomi.me/blog/roam-research-course-a-complete-guide - From Tiago Forte - Now I want to answer the obvious next question: **how do we adapt the Zettelkasten approach to note-taking for the modern era?** - I will first give an overview of Ahrens' recommendations before explaining how they should be adapted for the modern, digital world. He recommends the following 8 steps: - Make fleeting notes - Make literature notes - Make permanent notes - Now add your new permanent notes to the slip-box - Develop your topics, questions and research projects bottom up from within the slip-box - Decide on a topic to write about from within the slip-box - Turn your notes into a rough draft - Edit and proofread your manuscript - Ahrens notes that Luhmann actually had __two__ slip-boxes: the first was the “bibliographical” slip-box, which contained brief notes on the content of the literature he read along with a citation of the source; the second “main” slip-box contained the ideas and theories he developed based on those sources. Both were wooden boxes containing paper index cards. - Luhmann distinguished between three kinds of notes that went into his slip-boxes: fleeting notes, literature notes, and permanent notes. - **1. Make fleeting notes** - Fleeting notes are quick, informal notes on any thought or idea that pops into your mind. They don’t need to be highly organized, and in fact shouldn’t be. They are not meant to capture an idea in full detail, but serve more as reminders of what is in your head. - **2. Make** **literature notes** - The second type of note is known as a “literature note.” As he read, Luhmann would write down on index cards the main points he didn’t want to forget or that he thought he could use in his own writing, with the bibliographic details on the back. - Ahrens offers four guidelines in creating literature notes: - Be extremely selective in what you decide to keep - Keep the overall note as short as possible - Use your own words, instead of copying quotes verbatim - Write down the bibliographic details on the source - **3. Make permanent notes** - Permanent notes are the third type of note, and make up the long-term knowledge that give the slip-box its value. - This step starts with looking through the first two kinds of notes that you’ve created: fleeting notes and literature notes. Ahrens recommends doing this about once a day, before you completely forget what they contain. - As you go through them, think about how they relate to your research, current thinking, or interests. The goal is not just to __collect__ ideas, but to **develop**** arguments and discussions over time**. If you need help jogging your memory, simply look at the existing topics in your slip-box, since it already contains only things that interest you. - Here are a few questions to ask yourself as you turn fleeting and literature notes into permanent notes: - How does the new information contradict, correct, support, or add to what I already know? - How can I combine ideas to generate something new? - What questions are triggered by these new ideas? - As answers to these questions come to mind, write down each new idea, comment, or thought on its own note. If writing on paper, only write on one side, so you can quickly review your notes without having to flip them over. - Write these permanent notes as if you are writing for someone else. That is, use full sentences, disclose your sources, make explicit references, and try to be as precise and brief as possible. - Once this step is done, throw away (or delete) the fleeting notes from step one and file the literature notes from step two into your bibliographic slip-box. - **4. Add your permanent notes to the slip-box** - It’s now time to add the permanent notes you’ve created to your slip-box. Do this by filing each note behind a related note (if it doesn’t relate to any existing notes, add it to the very end). - Optionally, you can also: - Add links to (and from) related notes - Adding it to an “index” – a special kind of note that serves as a “table of contents” and entry point for an important topic, including a sorted collection of links on the topic - Each of the above methods is a way of creating an internal pathway through your slip-box. Like hyperlinks on a website, they give you many ways to associate ideas with each other. By following the links, you encounter new and different perspectives than where you started. - Luhmann wrote his notes with great care, not much different from his style in the final manuscript. More often than not, new notes would become part of existing strands of thought. He would add links to other notes both close by, and in distantly related fields. Rarely would a note stay in isolation. - **5. Develop your topics, questions, and research projects bottom up from within the slip-box** - With so many standardized notes organized in a consistent format, you are now free to develop ideas in a “bottom up” way. See what is there, what is missing, and which questions arise. Look for gaps that you can fill through further reading. - If and when needed, another special kind of note you can create is an “overview” note. These notes provide a “bird’s eye view” of a topic that has already been developed to such an extent that a big picture view is needed. Overview notes help to structure your thoughts and can be seen as an in-between step in the development of a manuscript. - **6. Decide on a topic to write about from within the slip-box** - Instead of coming up with a topic or thesis upfront, you can just look into your slip-box and look for what is most interesting. Your writing will be based on what you already have, not on an unfounded guess about what the literature you are about to read might contain. Follow the connections between notes and collect all the relevant notes on the topic you’ve found. - **7. Turn your notes into a rough draft** - Don’t simply copy your notes into a manuscript. __Translate__ them into something coherent and embed them into the context of your argument. As you detect holes in your argument, fill them or change the argument. - **8. Edit and proofread your manuscript** - From this point forward, all you have to do is refine your rough draft until it’s ready to be published. - This process of creating notes and making connections shouldn’t be seen as merely maintenance. The search for meaningful connections is a crucial part of the thinking process. Instead of figuratively searching our memories, we literally go through the slip-box and form concrete links. By working with actual notes, we ensure that our thinking is rooted in a network of facts, thought-through ideas, and verifiable references. - Method 2 - When you can recall a related note, link __from__ it immediately; otherwise, - Find potentially related structure notes. We’ll talk more about structure and hierarchy later, but if there aren’t any of these, skip to step 5. - Decide if: - The new note falls directly in that structure note; or - The new note is related to a note within it. (could be both) - When a higher-level insight emerges, (i.e. you decode a higher-level insight from the notes you connected) create a structure note. - Repeat steps 2-4 until you’ve exhausted your options. - Click on tags and find some potential relations. - Do a full search for related keywords. - Go back to step 4. <=> Sönke Ahrens describes his method for writing an article with a zettelkasten. Writing should not start with a blank sheet of paper, but emerge from the bottom up through conversation with one's notes. Writing does not begin with a blank page. Ahrens' process: Make fleeting notes on what you read Put them in one place (an inbox) and process them Make literature notes, documenting briefly what you don't want to forget or might use later Make permanent notes, outlining how the literature notes are relevant or might inform your own thinking and research, creating one note per idea File your permanent notes and link them to other relevant notes Develop your ideas based on what you see emerging in the zettelkasten Turn your notes into a rough draft, translating them into a coherent manuscript Edit your manuscript The translation phase is critical; an essay that is assembled from modular notes—no matter how well-written—will probably sound like it has been pieced together from fragments. It will lack unity of form and content. It's not as simple as just pasting together a series of zettels or fragment notes and adding transitions. Flaherty points to the example of some of Emerson's essays, which were put together in just this fashion: the voice is flat and the arguments suffer for the lack of unity. Main Note-taking and Understanding Steps For descriptions of these types of notes, see Zettelkasten System. Make fleeting notes to capture your thoughts before they disappear Make literature notes to capture your understanding of your reading and media Make permanent notes to transform fleeting and literature notes into long-term notes with bibliographic references, comments and ideas, etc. Add this permanent note to your slipbox through deep linking with other notes and ensuring it is accessible through your various major entrances to your system. Idea, Work, and Topic Generation When starting work, look to the slipbox for ideas, questions, etc. instead of trying to brainstorm from scratch. Now, take all of the different ideas and question and turn them into your topic or focus. Use the in-built system of connections to keep building and questioning your ideas and arguments Translate your notes into a working draft Edit and proofread your manuscript Required Tools Recording tools (e.g., pen and paper) Reference management system Slip-box Editor In a Zettelkasten system, there are three primary types of notes that make up your knowledge system[1-1] : Fleeting Notes Any quick notation of thoughts, ideas, concepts that may want to elaborate and save for later Think of these as notes to put into an inbox and only last until you process them or as a heuristic, when you no longer know what the meaning or purpose for them is Permanent Notes Notes that will never be removed from the system and serve as the primary unit of storage in your system with significant reference work The goal when creating permanent notes is to write them with your future self in mind. An example would be an evergreen note Project Notes Notes specific to a certain project that serve as a "dashboard" or "canvas" to help manage and organize the project in relation to the rest of your system. There is a fourth type of a note: literature or bibliographic notes. These are notes dedicated to specific pieces of media (e.g., journal articles). In the canonical Zettelkasten system, these were stored completely separately.s ---- In the old system, the question is: Under which topic do I store this note? In the new system, the question is: In which context will I want to stumble upon it again? Fleeting literature notes can make sense if you need an extra step to understand or grasp an idea, but they will not help you in the later stages of the writing process, as no underlined sentence will ever present itself when you need it in the development of an argument. Many students and academic writers think like the early ship owners when it comes to note-taking. They handle their ideas and findings in the way it makes immediate sense: If they read an interesting sentence, they underline it. If they have a comment to make, they write it into the margins. If they have an idea, they write it into their notebook, and if an article seems important enough, they make the effort and write an excerpt. Working like this will leave you with a lot of different notes in many different places. Writing, then, means to rely heavily on your brain to remember where and when these notes were written down. A text must then be conceptualised independently from these notes, which explains why so many resort to brainstorming to arrange the resources afterwards according to this preconceived idea. -- Create atomic notes. One page per idea. Keep it short and to the point. Write it in your own words. Write it so anyone, including your future self, can understand its meaning. To do this, you may need to include some context. Give each note a unique ID. In your digital tools, this is typically the note title. But a unique ID, often in the form of a timestamp (e.g., 202011251001), can also be used. Link your notes to related notes to allow you to easily navigate between associated ideas using Bi-Directional Links. Keep any references at the bottom of each note. Create Structure Notes (also referred to as Hub Notes, MOC, Index) to create some hierarchy for your notes, allowing you to see a bigger picture and also explain how the ideas may be connected. https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/m5ou2h/phd_workflow_obsidian_zettelkasten_zotero_pandoc/ (how to use pandoc) --- Tags: Reference: Related: [[@dagheElonMuskRules2020]] [[Superlearning MOC]] [[@heglandFutureText2020#Highlight yellow - Gyuri Lajos Page 249 · Location 3069]]