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Can you keep a Zettelkasten in a notebook?, someone asked on Reddit.
This made me realize, that the way I first migrated my notes into Obsidian and started making new notes was kinda like keeping them in a notebook. I ID’d them by timestamps, not implementing the alphanumeric ID system yet. This sorted my notes by time of creation, like if they were kept in a notebook.
So just like that, you can put your atomic or atomish notes into a series of notebooks continuously and link them either by timestamp ID or notebook ID + page number.
Related
- The way John Locke indexes his commonplace books: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-lockes-method-for-common-place-books-1685/
- Paper versus digital is in part a false contradiction. Scott Scheper ie. uses it for gatekeeping. 1b1a1a-the-gatekeeping-around-zettelkasten-pains-me
- The folgezettel numbering system is optional for digital, but it somewhat helps notes to cluster by connection. Without it, notes in a list would be sorted by date of creation or by title.