Zettelkasten

According to the Wiki, the zettelkasten (German: “slip box”, plural zettelkästen) is a system of note-taking and personal knowledge management used in research and study.

Necessary Elements

• Inbox - a note in this zettelkasten 20220523160050 Inbox
• A reference manager - Zotero
• The zettelkasten

Methods

• General Principles of the Zettelkasten Method - solid gold.
• Create Zettel from Reading Notes According to the Principle of Atomicity
• How to Write a Note That You Will Actually Understand
• Building Blocks of a Zettelkasten

Resources

• https://zettelkasten.de/ - if there was a site for refining your zettelkasten this would be it

Tools

• Zettlr - This is the editor I’m using as of 20220524 for most of my note taking and writing. It has a good mix of power features for zettelkasten systems, but it actually has a clean interface for writing that makes me want to actually write instead of muck around in a tool, or be distracted by an overly bloated code editor.
• Zotero - A reference manager. A must have to help a system work.