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Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method • Zettelkasten Method

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17

Every now and then you bump into an interesting post on a workflow you already have but did not know the name for.

This time it is [Wayback/Archive] Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method which has this nice definition:

A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thought possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thoughts instead of notes of arbitrary size and form, and emphasize connection, not a collection.

I thought a bit about it and it feels quite a bit like this blog: the ~5k draft posts at the time of writing are similar to a Zettelkasten: short notes with title and links either internally or externally.

These drafts are private, but the actual blog posts are either public (already published: some 8k at the time of writing) or queued for publication (some 2 years at the time of writing).

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