Misty on Nostr: Zettlekasten has been a Mystery https://m.primal.net/LCiR.jpg A few years ago, I ...
Zettlekasten has been a Mystery
A few years ago, I looked at it. It didn't make sense, but I found Obsidian and got sucked in by the "graph view."
Until recently, I thought the graph view connected the ideas between notes, thus sparking new content ideas.
Visually, it can. Visually, you can pull the dots here and there to see what other paths might cross. This action might cause new ideas to form. But it's no different from pulling two random notes and comparing them to see if you can create something new.
In a proper #Zettlekasten system, the notes are related to each other but different—not wildly different and having nothing to do with each other.
Over the last few years, my goal has been to populate #Obsidian with all my #notes, research, drafts, previously published works, etc. Then, when I had time to devote to it, I would start seeing what ideas would bubble up and decide which ideas to pluck from its digital soil.
There's both more and less to a Zettlekasten note-taking system, and my Obsidian vault, in its current form, is not a proper setup.
Right now, I need a digital search system to find things quickly, so I cannot imagine abandoning Obsidian.
I will try transforming it into a Zettlekasten by renaming the notes and extracting key points from previous notes (walls of text, articles, drafts, and so on).
I'll number the new notes using the traditional Zettlekasten numbering system by how ideas relate to one another and eventually remove items from their current folders.
The notes will become actual notes (less than 100 words each), and the filing will be the same as if they were on notecards in a drawer.
I'm not sure if it will work, but I feel compelled to try.
A few years ago, I looked at it. It didn't make sense, but I found Obsidian and got sucked in by the "graph view."
Until recently, I thought the graph view connected the ideas between notes, thus sparking new content ideas.
Visually, it can. Visually, you can pull the dots here and there to see what other paths might cross. This action might cause new ideas to form. But it's no different from pulling two random notes and comparing them to see if you can create something new.
In a proper #Zettlekasten system, the notes are related to each other but different—not wildly different and having nothing to do with each other.
Over the last few years, my goal has been to populate #Obsidian with all my #notes, research, drafts, previously published works, etc. Then, when I had time to devote to it, I would start seeing what ideas would bubble up and decide which ideas to pluck from its digital soil.
There's both more and less to a Zettlekasten note-taking system, and my Obsidian vault, in its current form, is not a proper setup.
Right now, I need a digital search system to find things quickly, so I cannot imagine abandoning Obsidian.
I will try transforming it into a Zettlekasten by renaming the notes and extracting key points from previous notes (walls of text, articles, drafts, and so on).
I'll number the new notes using the traditional Zettlekasten numbering system by how ideas relate to one another and eventually remove items from their current folders.
The notes will become actual notes (less than 100 words each), and the filing will be the same as if they were on notecards in a drawer.
I'm not sure if it will work, but I feel compelled to try.