"Explain Like I'm Five": Zettelkasten

Posted by zoe
Apr 24, 2015 at 12:57 PM

Thank you for that clarification, Dr Andus. So in your CT setup, it appears that you have a markup template when you create a new note. In the case of your quotes archive, you have the quote itself, your commentary on the quote, the source of the quote, the date accessed, and then (I assume) and automatically populated list of other fragments which are associated with that date—so you may retrace your train of thought on that day, which probably relates to the source material. I’m supposing that the backlinks and outlinks map finds more use in other types of entries.

In the bog-basic CT setup (the Welcome Project tutorial), much is made of the Categories system, however I find your metadata more in line with what I’m looking for: context for trains of thought, and incoming/outgoing connections. More like what you get in The Brain, where discrete categorization is not necessary for relating large amounts of information along many axes of relationship.