📝Zettelkasten is about developing ideas, not collecting them

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§ 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

• Separate literature notes from permanent notes

• Separate permanent notes and project notes

• Use tags sparingly in Zettelkasten

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