📝Zettelkasten as a tool for breaking down and rebuilding structure
Zettelkasten is a tool that allows breaking down a complex topic (into small atomic notes)—“dissection”—and rebuilding its structure bottom-up (with the Structure Notes). This structure can be novel and different from what is commonly thought.
As a consequence, it’s only worth adding notes that contribute to the topics you want to build structure for.
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Zettelkasten as a tool for building mental models: this “structure” might be equivalent to mental model, so Zettelkasten might be a tool for developing mental models explicitly.