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>The next step, is to take only those ideas that are relevant to what you're working on (after all, the ZK is primarily a tool for helping writers develop their
by closedloop129 4y ago
>The next step, is to take only those ideas that are relevant to what you're working on (after all, the ZK is primarily a tool for helping writers develop their ideas) and make individual zettels for each one based on your interpretation of the author's idea. But, in order to do this, you have to know what you're working on!
Does this mean that if you don't know what you want to do that the zettelkasten is not the right method? In other words, zettelkasten is more a search than a find tool. Has somebody developed a method that's more appropriate for discovering and linking new ideas for new projects?
- Tomte 4y ago> In other words, zettelkasten is more a search than a find tool Yes. Luhmann called it a partner he could converse with. But note that he didn't store cards about thermodynamics, cloud formation or garden plants in it. He stored cards pertaining to his research interests.
- CuriousSkeptic 4y agoAs I understand the theory, it is for things you may, or may not, produce. If you at a future point would decide to write a book, paper, blogpost, design draft, manifesto, or anything of that sort, about things that you currently find interesting. Then ZK is about moving the note taking part of that future work to doing it now. With the option of using it for something completely different if that work changes your understanding and interests along the way.