Yep, a Zettelkasten Overview about... #zettelkasten.
Zettelkasten is a highly sophisticated approach to note-taking using index cards, developed in the 16th century but made popular in modern times thanks to the extreme productivity of Niklas Luhmann, a German scholar, and How to take smart notes, a book about his techniques by Sönke Ahrens.
I first came across Zettelkasten in late 2019 as I was building MyHub.ai. It seemed to offer something to my personal productivity processes, so I bought the book and wrote the first of several posts on the subject a few months after launch as I tried to integrate both Zettelkasten and MyHub.ai into my personal content strategy.
It took me more than one attempt before concluding that:
While I was personally OK with working out loud:
Before embarking on this development I need to do more research into optimising Zettelkasten for the MyHub.ai environment. As I launch this Overview in mid November 2020 I already know that MyHub.ai needs:
But I sense there's a lot more to know. Fortunately, there's a lot to read and a community to engage with, so I:
It's all very meta.
This is where I'm putting my notes from mid-November onwards.
Most writing on zettelkasten is framed by the productivity paradigm, where one's notes are private: created and managed for an audience of one. That allows for complexity - cf A Tale of Complexity.
MyHub.ai comes to world of note-taking from perspective of integrating content curation (Zettelkasten's bibliographic notes) into the user's public online presence. While MyHub.ai Hosted Items support Zettelkasten's fleeting and permanent notes, the underlying tech doesn't support note-taking features like bi-directional links. Yet. Would these make user's public Hubs too complex? So many links! Difficult to follow someone else's logic.
Have public and private levels for each note? So user's public Hub is above-surface iceberg: easy to navigate, rather pretty to look at. The Editor can access everything: processing public and private content using bi-directional links, NLP-driven visualisations, etc.
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