Zettelkasten workflow.excalidraw
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Text Elements
Interest - user finds relevant content to consume
Decide method of capturing information and thoughts
Daily note
External note
Voice memo
Transcribe into
temporary notes
Import into
temporary notes
Create ingest tags and tasks
/ blank note
For every:
- point
- section
- etc.
Is it relevant?
relevant info
info not relevant
Discard
archive
What is the takeaway?
Interim: Time might pass - This is where having a system to review your inbox/ingest/seedlings and get in the habit of doing a bit of review whenever you work
Move the relevant info into a buffer note or literature note
can be longform - can even be a canvas
This is the point where you will start thinking about links. even links to things you might not have notes for yet. You can create empty links and use this as a guide for further study
Begin mapping connections between existing and new information (links or diagramming it) while writing your insights about them in your buffer/literature notes
new research
Writing the authors arguments or thesis - in your own words
there may be some going back and forth in this section
other methods are valid, of course!
general category or area of interest and/or what you need to do with it.
Now its time separate out ideas into their own notes with relevant tags - tags as structure for recall as opposed to structure for review - and of course creating the links to your other notes as you create them.
Make use of unlinked mentions pane as well as templates to speed up this process.
As your knowledge base grows, you may want to introduce some structure to help you recall information more quickly. Using tags accompanying dataview or queries is suggested. You can use structure notes that have links or these tag-queries in them that can serve as a kind of map without confining you to a rigid structure of folders. Avoiding the issue of wanting to put ideas in multiple folders.
Pillars of a Zettelkasten
- Write all the time
- Everything is knowledge
- Your permanent notes should be irreducable, complete thoughts
- Knowledge is the connections between these thoughts
highlighted excerpts
Audio excerpts from podcasts or audiobooks
the key is for your method to have as little friction as possible for getting the source material into note form
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