3 Zettelkasten Notes for #ship30for30 Creators – A Simple System for Instant Essay Outlines How do you start? Read the thread by Ely @jozzua Ely teaches Visual Zettelkasten 3️⃣5️⃣ / 6️⃣0️⃣ @jozzua 3 Zettelkasten Notes for #ship30for30 Creators - A Simple System for Instant Essay Outlines • Fleeting • Literature • Permanent How do you start? Read the thread . 10 June 19, 2021 Ely teaches Visual Zettelkasten 3️⃣5️⃣ / 6️⃣0️⃣ @jozzua You should learn about Zettelkasten. Niklas Luhmann, the creator of Zettelkasten, a personal knowledge management system composed of 90,000 index cards, credits it for enabling him to write 70 books & 400 scholarly articles Start with the 3 kinds of notes. 1 June 19, 2021 Ely teaches Visual Zettelkasten 3️⃣5️⃣ / 6️⃣0️⃣ @jozzua Capture fleeting notes. In the middle of your work & something pops up, like a thought or an idea, in your head? Have a system in place that allows you to capture this. Start with a index card. Better if it's digital. 1 June 19, 2021 Ely teaches Visual Zettelkasten 3️⃣5️⃣ / 6️⃣0️⃣ @jozzua What's the importance of the 3 different notes types? Fleeting notes are info you quickly capture & you get back to tasks at hand. Literature notes are what authors say on an idea. Permanent notes are your interpretations from 1 or many diff authors. 1 June 19, 2021 Ely teaches Visual Zettelkasten 3️⃣5️⃣ / 6️⃣0️⃣ @jozzua ⌨ Rewrite what you've read into your own understanding. Read all the information you've collected, both fleeting & literature notes. Make a summary statement about what you've read. Summarized ideas from multiple notes become permanent notes. 1 June 19, 2021 Ely teaches Visual Zettelkasten 3️⃣5️⃣ / 6️⃣0️⃣ @jozzua Make literature notes while reading a book or article. Note the title of the book (or the URL if it's a webpage). Write (or copy-paste to your digital notepad) whatever information you capture. Write your initial thoughts on it. Process this information later. 1 June 19, 2021 Ely teaches Visual Zettelkasten 3️⃣5️⃣ / 6️⃣0️⃣ @jozzua When you have an idea you want to talk about, get one one of your permanent notes. Get a blank sheet of paper and write a starting sentence that comes from your permanent notes. Next, form a related argument by following the trail of your sequence of notes. 1 June 19, 2021 Ely teaches Visual Zettelkasten 3️⃣5️⃣ / 6️⃣0️⃣ @jozzua ☕ Rewrite and edit your argument as often as you want. Voila! You've now started an essay that you could instantly make from your system of literature, permanent & fleeting notes. Share it and get feedback! Follow me & I'll show you to do it next in @RoamResearch & @obsdmd . 3 June 19, 2021 Ely teaches Visual Zettelkasten 3️⃣5️⃣ / 6️⃣0️⃣ @jozzua How to do fleeting notes in Obsidian: 1 June 20, 2021 Ely teaches Visual Zettelkasten 3️⃣5️⃣ / 6️⃣0️⃣ @jozzua 7 June 21, 2021
