Anything you can capture, you can also capture the negation or inversion of.| Christian Tietze
Steps you can take to begin writing with your zettelkasten| Writing by Bob Doto
Clearing up misunderstandings about how folgezettel functions in the zettelkasten| Writing by Bob Doto
This article gives a preliminary framework for people wanting to experiment with a collaborative zettelkasten. Keep in mind, these are mere suggestions, since I've not yet experimented with this type of slip box. As to whether the suggestions are valid, this will be determined by anyone who attempts to put them into practice. Note: While this article was written in the context of a Luhmann-style zettelkasten, people using similar, adjacent models, should feel free to work with what's presente...| Writing by Bob Doto
The term "bottom-up" is commonly used to characterize "flat" note-taking systems that reject both hierarchy and topical folders, ones that draw inspiration from Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten practice and writings. However, the term still retains a degree of ambiguity, functioning as shorthand for working with ideas "organically" or in a way that "more closely resembles how our brain works." Despite its frequent use, the question remains: what do we mean when we describe the zettelkasten as a ...| Writing by Bob Doto
Maintaining a Luhmann-style zettelkasten is, in part, a practice of destabilizing someone else's structured thinking. Complex ideas developed by a writer, once skillfully woven into a fabric of singular theses, are unwound from their original focus in order to yield separate, "atomic" ideas that can be reimagined, reinterpreted, and, ultimately, repurposed for new work. While on the surface this pillaging of someone's writing may seem destructive, even an affront to something sacred, it is ac...| Writing by Bob Doto
Despite the many different points of origin a main note may have,1 developing ideas in the context of a zettelkasten can generally be achieved in two ways:| Writing by Bob Doto
Registration for "Writing With a Zettelkasten" is now open. First session: Tuesday, Sept 5, 2023. Limited to 20 people.| Writing by Bob Doto
All source material is handled more or less the same way when working with a Luhmann-style zettelkasten. Whether it's a 500-page book on literary theory or a...| Writing by Bob Doto
Let us read an article by Matt Massicotte about Swift actor use and abuse, and extract from it as much as we can learn.| Christian Tietze
The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything” – That post from Zettelkasten.de blew up on Hacker News yesterday to my surprise. We will discuss this in a couple of days and let the dust settle.| Christian Tietze
Anytype-Lobhudelei: Schöner, sicherer, offline-first| kantel.github.io
Anytype, die freie, außerhalb der USA, nämlich in der Schweiz (und damit DSGVO-konform) beheimatete Notion-Alternative, ist nicht nur bei mir, sondern – wenn ich meinem GeißenpeterNeugiertool trauen darf – auch bei Euch sehr beliebt. Daher will ich Euch die Nachricht nicht vorenthalten, daß von dem Teil gestern die Version 0.48 Desktop Beta (August 2025) freigegeben wurde: Wie bei jedem Update gibt die fokussierte (und personifizierte) Neugier (Focused Curiosity) in einem YouTube-Vid...| Der Schockwellenreiter
QOwnNotes ist ein freier (GPL) und kostenloser Open-Source-Notizblock im Klartextformat. Das Programm unterstützt Markdown und enthält einen To-Do-Listen-Manager, der unter FreeBSD, Linux, macOS und Windows funktioniert. Das Programm hatte ich schon länger auf meiner Testliste und als vor ein paar Tagen mir die Meldung in meinen Feedreader schneite, daß es nun auch ein Universal binary for macOS gäbe, hatte ich mich endlich zu einem Test entschlossen. QOwnNotes ist nämlich vor allen des...| Der Schockwellenreiter
Ich hatte ja schon lange nichts mehr über mein Chromebook auf diesen Seiten. Das lag vor allen daran, daß ich momentan fast alles von meinem Desktop in meinem Arbeitszimmer erledige. Nun hat sich allerdings ergeben, daß in der nächsten Zeit doch häufiger eine mobile Nutzung gefragt ist. Und da wollte ich wissen, ob ich meine digitale Rumpelkammer Anytpye, die freie, außerhalb der USA, nämlich in der Schweiz (und damit DSGVO-konform) beheimatete Notion-Alternative nicht auch auf dem Chr...| Der Schockwellenreiter
I am learning to speak a new language: Swift Concurrency. It is densely packed with familiar-sounding concepts and details I am not aware of (yet). This is how I tackle it.| Christian Tietze
A Zettelkasten is a tool for learning. How do I learn a new piece of a familiar API at the very start?| Christian Tietze
The commitment to actually sit down and write may be hard to follow through on—but it is worth it.| v4.chriskrycho.com
Defining a Zettelkasten—a way of organizing notes for long-term usability and effective learning.| v4.chriskrycho.com
An observation on Zettelkasten and the continuing value of physical media.| v4.chriskrycho.com
Improving my approach to deep reading with better notes and my Zettelkasten.| v4.chriskrycho.com
Assumed Audience: people interested in reading, writing, learning, and research systems—particularly on iOS, and particularly with automation in view. A few evenings ago, I spent a little while building out some Siri Shortcuts to make the process of building out notes in my Zettelkasten on the fly easier. Building them in Bear is easy enough, but it’s even nicer to just be able to tap a button and have things like the date auto-generated for the note title in exactly the format I want: YY...| Chris Krycho
I wrote earlier this week about adopting a Zettelkasten approach for research, and moving writing prompts and ideas from Bear into Ulysses as part of that. I’m already reversing course. Here’s why.| v4.chriskrycho.com
An update on my work-in-progress research system, using Bear.app as a tool for the Zettelkasten system—with some comments on how I’m doing this, and why.| v4.chriskrycho.com
Pretty regularly, I go back and reread my own blog posts—and not for vanity. It’s an illuminating experience, a lot like reading through old notes.| v4.chriskrycho.com
What is the Zettelkasten method? Can it help you organise your notes? How can you use a Zettelkasten to write fiction or non-fiction?| Lady Writer
Discover the Zettelkasten Method, one of the most powerful note-taking systems. With it, you will boost your productivity and creativity.| Sébastien Dubois
