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“More often than not, your first note on a subject will not contain a top-level concept or some sort of umbrella statement. It will be an idea that is niche and specific.” - says Bob Doto in his article about Folgezettel.
A Luhmannian Zettelkasten is a network of ideas that’s built from bottom up. It makes sense, that the first thing you put in it is not the description of some predetermined order (like pre-set category list) or a top-level idea that needs to be detailed “in later chapters”.
Rather, the first thing you put in it is just a random idea that’s right in front of you at the moment, and you can hop forward from there, through chains of association.
Related
- How Scott Scheper’s use of top level categories made me miserable: 1b1-scott-scheper-s-suggestion-to-build-your-zettelkasten-numbering-system-on-the-outline-of-academic-disciplines-is-confusing
- The reason I am so drawn to the idea of a Zettelkasten is because in my ADHD brain, there are loosely associated, wild chains of thoughts running all the time.
- A Zettelkasten is a rhizome (just like a relationship graph). 1c2-a-relationship-graph-is-a-rhizome
- You can use hubs to access your notes in an organised way. You can start writing hub notes looking backward of looking forward. 1b2-there-are-two-ways-to-start-a-hub-note-looking-back-or-looking-forward
Folgezettel links
- 1-writing-and-publishing-my-zettelkasten-in-english-can-be-a-good-way-to-practice-the-feynman-technique
- 1b1-scott-scheper-s-suggestion-to-build-your-zettelkasten-numbering-system-on-the-outline-of-academic-disciplines-is-confusing
- 1b2-there-are-two-ways-to-start-a-hub-note-looking-back-or-looking-forward