Bob Doto

To establish relationships between informational units in a zettelkasten, units must become modular, able to move between different regions of your slip box, and into conceptual and spatial proximity with one another.

The term "serendipity" and allusions to serendipitous-like events are not uncommon in the zettelkasten scene, particularly in regard to the way insights are expected to reveal themselves through the connecting of ideas.

It's not uncommon for new zettelkasten users who place a premium on deep reading to find the intangible nature of ideas anxiety-producing.

Researching and writing books is, to say the least, a mood.

A common misunderstanding regarding alphanumeric IDs (aka "folgezettel") has to do with the first number in the sequence—i.e., the "1" in 1.3a6b, or the "17" in 17.4f.

Hub notes and structure notes don't get a lot of attention in the zettelkasten discourse, especially in comparison to reference notes and main notes.

This article gives a preliminary framework for people wanting to experiment with a collaborative zettelkasten.

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.

Maintaining a Luhmann-style zettelkasten is, in part, a practice of destabilizing someone else's structured thinking.

This article is part of a new series titled "Doing What Matters Most," which looks at how simple, flexible, personal, project management systems can help people make sense of their lives.