Zettelkasten Principles
Summary
- Main principles for keeping a zettelkasten
- based on david clears article
Main topics
- Principle of Atomicity in Notetaking
- Principle of Autonomy for notes
- Always link notes to existing notes. A note disconneted will get lost.
- Give a brief explanation as to why you are linking the notes. You may not remember by the time you come back to them
- You must express teh note in your own words.
- Keep a reference
- Add your own ideas and thoughts to it.
- Dont use folders or categories, or other structural devices
- Add connection notes
- Add outline notes (this could eventually be a story, blog or book in future)
- Dont delete - link to a new note with the correct idea.
- Dont worry about too many notes - Luhman had more than 90,000 notes in his zettelkasten