I'm following Bob Doto's advice and using Luhmann's numbering scheme, which in effect imposes a tree structure on top of a more free-form linking structure. My top-level titles are weird: 1.5: The brain is expensive. 3.3: Republic of Letters letters were often sent multi-hop 4.3: Russian fairy tales are constructed from linearly organized event types. 7.1: What does the abstraction abstract away? 14.1: People hate negativity. 15.1: Socialism aimed to change the environment in order to change ...| Zettelkasten Forum
In @Sascha's nice translation of “Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen” (much thanks!), Luhmann speaks much of randomness in ways that are not clear to me. I've read somewhere that I can no longer find – bad note-taker! bad! – that Luhmann would sometimes browse the Zettelkasten with no fixed purpose, moving about it more-or-less at random to see what his "communication partner had to say." Does anyone have a citation or pointer to more details? One thing Luhmann says in "Kommunikation" is...| Zettelkasten Forum
This discussion was created from comments split from: The Complete Guide to Atomic Note-Taking by @ctietze Exact point in the previous discussion this was branched off from: https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/24003/#Comment_24003| Zettelkasten Forum
Writing with my Zettelkasten has taught me patience. Every time I start a new piece — a post, an essay, or even a book — I need to build a new linear order from a network of interconnected ideas. That means sorting through permanent notes, shaping a storyline, and finding the right tone for the audience. It’s slow work. As William Zinsser said, “Writing is hard work.” But could it be easier? We now live in the age of AI. One simple prompt could produce the desired output. Let’s im...| Zettelkasten Forum
In "How to Take Smart Notes", Ahrens states that before you add a slip to your slipbox, you should: "Make sure it can be found from the index; add an entry in the index if necessary or refer to it from a note that is connected to the index." (p. 104) Originally, I thought it was just important that no slip gets orphaned and is connected to some thread of notes, but this statement gives me the impression that every slip must be no more than 1 degree of separation away from the Index. But once ...| Zettelkasten Forum