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Long thinking is a term coined by Giovanni Corazza and picked up by Cal Newport.

I don’t understand why headlines like The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films aren’t inciting moral panics.

I listened to a Podcast episode of Modern Wisdom with Cal Newport.

Dear Zettlers, There is immense tension between AI’s advances in capabilities and its negative effects on our minds.

Nori said my zettelkasten notes look more like mini-essays.

You never know the value of the idea unless you execute it.

Dear Zettlers, I am currently wrestling with the question of what to make of mnemonics.

How to start as a beginner?

If you haven’t been academically trained on the topic of citations, chances are nobody ever told you about basic citation conventions.

Dear Zettlers, In today’s newsletter, we will discuss a fairly technical aspect of the Zettelkasten Method: How to link.

While Zettelkasten practice improves thinking outside the Zettelkasten, we’ll have to lay out a specific problem with the Zettelkasten Method: we can only think in and within our Zettelkasten when it is available.

Dear Zettlers, This might help you relate McPherson’s book, Effective Note-Taking, to the Zettelkasten Method: The term “note” has multiple meanings that can cause confusion.

In the world of the Zettelkasten Method and in the broader world of PKM, size matters.

Dear Zettlers, Currently, I am building a podcast called “Das gute Leben in der Moderne” (“How to Live a Good Life in Modern Times”).

I wrote a post that outlines rewriting as one element of how the Zettelkasten Method trains your mind.

Dear Zettlers, This sentence states perfectly the mechanics of the Zettelkasten as a tool and how to integrate it into one’s overall workflow: The cultivation of knowledge is the objective of knowledge work and productivity workflows facilitate this effor…

TL;DR: Friction that increases with system size is an existential threat.

Dear Zettlers, Here are some universal questions for any note-taking system.

This guide is deliberately concise.

This piece has two goals: Provide a tool to assess the benefits of various methods and tools for writing and thinking.

A Zettelkasten session has the following form: Phases of a Zettelkasten session the warm-up phase, the productive phase, the busy but unproductive phase.

Dear Zettlers, The last newsletter went viral.

Atomic note-taking is one of the buzzwords surrounding the Zettelkasten Method.

Dear Zettlers, This scam is decades old now and it is quite surprising that people still fall for it.

In this session, James and I talked about how to incorporate the Zettelkasten into a writing workflow.

This is the last session of this little series of developing a knowledge work practice with Nori.

There was a bit of backlash on Reddit regarding the video on using the Zettelkasten Method for Hindu Philosophy.

Context: Nori wrote an article about quitting the Zettelkasten Method.

The following video is a recorded coaching session on how to write with the Zettelkasten in mind.

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.

Dear Zettlers, I’d like to share three paragraphs from the English translation of the Zettelkasten Method book: The Zettelkasten’s active approach counters the problem of modern information inflation—the overwhelming abundance of low-value content.1 Infor…

In this video, I coach Ashish on using the Zettelkasten Method to study Hindu philosophy.

In this video, I coach Fernando on how to create depth in his knowledge work using the Knowledge Flower, a core framework for increasing the value of information and turning it into knowledge.

In this video I talk with Nori Parelius about her experience with her Zettelkasten.

With today’s public release, everyone can enjoy type-to-complete style auto-completion of #hashtags in their Zettelkasten.

If you want to increase your productivity, you need a method to measure it.

Dear Zettlers, Currently, my mind is captured by a phenomenon that I called the ST-gap.

When I processed Transcend by Kaufman1, I encountered the following problems: Lack of authority: The book is not a book for me whose structure I want to follow.

Dear Zettlers, There is one trait that needs to be developed if you want to make any long-term system work: This trait is a proper relationship with your future self.

We’re excited to announce the release of The Archive v1.8!