✍🏾 summary
To work with your thoughts, you should:
- Think.
- Write it down.
- Transform that thought into something else.
The real power in the Zettelkasten system is the productivity, the increased output that comes from incubating your ideas.
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💬 favorite quotes
know that the note you just took has yet to realize its potential.
Note-taking allows you to quickly get ideas out of your head and onto the page, forcing previously amorphous thoughts to engage with the language needed to convert them into coherent ideas.
Struggling to put an idea into words forces us to wrestle with the language through which that idea will be expressed. Rather than being a means of recording what we already believe, writing, even in the form of short notes, helps us understand what we think we know.
Note-taking is writing, and writing is a path toward knowing.
Some of the best ideas come from the least academic sources.
When it comes to researching a topic, I consider no form of media “off limits.” In addition to non-fiction tomes, I read fiction, poetry, zines, listen to music, and watch films. I engage with whatever I come across that speaks to my interests, using any of the approaches above to capture ideas and make use of them.
In its most basic form, a main note should have at least two components: a single idea, and a link to another idea stored in your zettelkasten.
title than “Apples and edibility.”
interact with chaos without being consumed by it.
hub notes, structure notes, keyword indexes
Always take advantage of inspiration.
“Cut out the first paragraph. No need to wait around while the writer clears their throat.”
📋 references
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Concepts mentioned: Zettelkasten
Status: #draft
Tags: memory, creativity, notetaking