📝Zettelkasten is about developing ideas, not collecting them

source: Ahrens₂₀₁₇

§ Zettelkasten is about developing ideas, not collecting them

Do not turn slip-box into archive of notes, or worse—a graveyard of thought.

Things to ask when you add a new note:

how it supports or contradicts your other notes?
what do you think about it?
what questions are triggered by it?
can you combine it with other notes to generate something new?

See also

Backlinks

🖋 How I note
📖 How to Take Smart Notes
📝 Archiving
📝 Use tags sparingly in Zettelkasten
📝 Zettelkasten process
📝 Treat random notes as a separate “project”
📝 Separate literature notes from permanent notes
📝 Separate permanent notes and project notes
📝 § Zettelkasten