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Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes · Tomas Vik

This article should be enough of the introduction to get you started.

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box/

improve the value of your notes as you create more of them

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box/

The advanced practices are useful only when you’ve got close to 1000 notes

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box/

You write notes with a clear purpose: your future self is going to be reorganizing them and using them to produce articles or books

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box/

Always use your own words. Copying doesn’t give you feedback on your understanding.

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box/

The main unit of information within the method is a permanent note. This note is:

atomic: always focused on a single topic, that makes linking notes easier self-contained: you will forget the context in a few weeks, the note needs to explain itself in separation from the fleeting context permanent: you are never going to delete the note, it might just fade into the background if there aren’t many links to it concise: few paragraphs maximum, restricting the size helps you get the gist and keep the note atomic

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box/

Advice #1: Don’t try to get this method perfect from the get go. The advanced practices are useful only when you’ve got close to 1000 notes.

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box/

premise is that you’ll understand something once, and then you’ll always have this understanding stored in your Slip-box as a note. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box-after-a-year/

reading.

  • Short - Short note is easier to read and keep it on a single topic. I try to keep my notes about four paragraphs or less.
  • Atomic - The note contains one idea or fact, making the notes easier to link and deduplicate.
  • Densely-linked - When the note uses another thought or fact, you don’t repeat it but refer (link) to it.
  • Optimised for reading - You spend more time writing and polishing the note because you expect to read it over and over again as opposed to the write-and-forget style.

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box-after-a-year/

spent more time writing them because you explain the topic with low context to your future self who already forgot all about it.

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box-after-a-year/