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I read the book and found it delivered as advertised. If you were looking for a step-by-step guide then yes that is not what you got but I found it explaine, ev
by toma_caliente 4y ago
I read the book and found it delivered as advertised. If you were looking for a step-by-step guide then yes that is not what you got but I found it explaine, even excessively so at times, "how to take smart notes."
- kstrauser 4y agoI think what I was looking for was the equivalent of “Getting Things Done” that mixed the theory of why you’d want to take notes this way with an explanation of how to. The promise of Zettelkasten wasn’t so much of the taking of notes, which I thought was useful but not really life-changing, but on what to do with them afterward. After a couple hundred pages of how that kind of organization could benefit me, I really wanted to know how to achieve it.
- toma_caliente 4y agoI don't think this is in the book because this is highly personal to you and what your goals are. Sonke and Luhmann had the goal of research and writing. They use their Zettelkasten to produce research which I think Sonke explains pretty well how he does it but if you aren't interested in research or writing then that's explanation is kinda useless. So how you use it will be very dependent on why you want to use it. If you're taking notes just to take notes then you will likely not get any value out of it.