2020-05-20 Discovering Zettelkasten

I first made a discovery on Zettelkasten when I was reading about Roam Research. These are the articles that I’m mainly going back to again and again to understand the method more:

• Zettelkasten — How One German Scholar Was So Freakishly Productive (opens new window)
• Andy Matuschak - §Note-writing systems (opens new window)
• Andy Matuschak - Taxonomy of note types (opens new window)
• Zettlr | “Wtf is a Zettelkasten?” (opens new window)

Before I discovered this method, I have been approaching my reading and learning with Mind map. Unfortunately I found the mind map approach to have too much friction for my liking. First, a mind map has to be stored in a proprietary format. Second, I can’t easily add notes to the map. The way I think about the Zettelkasten method at the moment is its very similar to Mind mapping, but it’s making the note first class, and the graph second.

Backlinks

• 2020-05-21 Going with Bear for Zettelkasten
  • I’ve been evaluating the software that I can use to practice 2020-05-20 Discovering Zettelkasten.
• Note-writing system
  • Initially, the system started as an attempt for copy the Zettelkasten method (2020-05-20 Discovering Zettelkasten), until I realise that Andy Matuschak’s evergreen note is different to Zettelkasten (opens new window):