Stian's Notes

Zettelkasten

  • #public
  • Process log
    • Sorting through on April 21st, 2020 while recording a video. Spent about 20 minutes to process 17 linked references. Feels a bit slow, but I see some interesting structure emerging.
  • Related concepts
  • Questions
    • ​How to position this note in relationship with [[Note taking]]? Merge with Zettelkasten? #p
  • Invented by Niklas Luhmann
  • Secondary literature
    • Books
      • Book: "How to Take Smart Notes📒", Sonke Ahrens
      • Die Zettelkasten methode: Kontrolliere dein Wissen
        • by Sascha Fast and Christian Tietze
        • Souveränität ist die Schlüsselkompetenz in unserer modernen Welt im Umgang mit Wissen und Informationen. Dabei sind Schnelligkeit, Sicherheit und Flexibilität die entscheidenden Komponenten, um diese Souveränität für sich zu gewinnen. Die Zettelkastenmethode ist eine flexible und individuell anpassbare Technik mit Wissen umzugehen. Sie ist auf jeden System mit ein paar Handgriffen realisierbar, ohne dass man komplizierte Programme verstehen muss. In ihrer Einfachheit ist sie unübertroffen und ist der (fast) unsichtbare Helfer für dich im Umgang mit dem Wissen. Niklas Luhmann, einer der produktivsten Wissenschaftler aller Zeiten, sagte einmal, er müsse gar nicht schreiben, das mache der Zettelkasten für ihn. Als ich das Prinzip hinter seinem Zettelkasten, zusammen mit Christian Tietze, in die moderne Welt der digitalen Technik übertrug, war ich überrascht, wie viel Wahrheit in Luhmanns Aussage steckt.
    • Blog posts
  • Places to discuss
  • Theory
  • Dangers / pitfalls
    • https://clerestory.netlify.com/zk1/
    • He warns against the seduction of densely interconnecting ideas across domains, because it can create mental models so complex that they obscure reality and discourage reality-testing.
    • Collector's Fallacy - trying to capture all of the original author's intention, instead of relying on my own voice and understanding. Pasting too much raw material. Worried about missing something.
  • Interfaces
    • Hierarchical (like Roam)
      • Writing using outlines - one sentence per bullet, hierarchy. Much easier to move things up and down (​but danger of disconnected text, like I found sometimes with Scrivener when I wrote each paragraph as a stand-alone piece) - but the hierarchy helps, because when you move something that has children, they come along. Can also use folding. #bullets
    • Visual
        • Different formats
          - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fstian%2FhCzgo-uVs0?alt=media&token=767f87ab-0ef7-43f4-a973-d86478588666)<span id='T34wHZIIp'/>
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    • Knowledge Building (with rise aboves etc) and [[Zettelkasten-p]] #Newsletter #juxtaposition
  • Tools
  • Workflow
    • From Zettelkasten.de (discordian) on how to use Zettelkasten to create lectures
      • https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/865/introduction-teaching-using-zettelkasten-and-paskian-entailment-meshes#latest
      • ​There is a rich discussion in this thread that I haven't processed, worth coming back to Resurface March 26th, 2020
      • The inspiration comes from close colleagues historian father, who had this system of writing his materials on perforated index cards and then using a steel rod to 'fish out' materials for a given lecture from a giant archive drawer. Basically, he had a mechanical tagging system and could prepare a lecture in a moment's notice with it.
      • A coherence is set of three or more topics with the curious property that any topic in a given coherence is entailed by the remaining topics. For example, the Topics {Function, Data, Transformation} form a coherence, since concepts of Function and Data imply a Transformation (of the data), Transformation and Data imply a Function (specifying the transformation) and Transformation and Function imply Data (to be transformed).
      • The idea seems to boil down to this: if the student knows some of the topics, an explanation for the unknown topics is implied by the coherence.
      • Gordon Pasks Conversation Theory Pask arranges teaching materials into Entailment Meshes, which are build out of Topics (comparable to zettels) and arranged (mainly) into overlapping Coherences.
    • Getting a sense of the power of Daily Notes. The way I am setting up my [[Zettelkasten-p]] now feels... daunting. I feel reticent to add to it, because I want the notes in there to be "permanent". Maybe this is a similar dynamic to formalism considered harmful? To support Z1: levels of processing,
  • Videos of workflows
  • People/connections
    • Christian Wahl
      • My interest in [[Zettelkasten-p]] lies in the connection between my use of systems theory and the personal aspect of using digital media.

Referred in

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Note taking

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Three levels of Note taking

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