Zettelkasten Method Explained: A Beginner's Guide - 双语字幕
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This is the efficient note-taking system
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Hi, everyone, it's Vicki.
Welcome back to my channel.
If you're new here, I talk about mental models and frameworks for clear thinking and clear communications.
So let's go into what is Zetelkasten, how do we use it and what benefits you'll get out of this.
First, Zetelkasten means slip box in German.
Zetel is slip,
which is usually referring to a slip paper index card,
and Casta means crate, which is like a box that you put the index cards in.
And Nicholas Lumen,
a German sociologist,
used this unique note-taking system in order to track all his research and to be able to produce
70 books and hundreds of articles in just 30-plus years.
That's an average of more than two books a year, as well as all the academic articles.
So how does he do this?
It's with the Zeta Casta method.
And the Zeta Casta method is very simple.
All you need are three things.
You Zetel, which is the pieces of paper.
You need Castan.
the crate and then you just need a pen.
Of course this is the analog version of Zetokosten.
I'll share with you the digital version of it as well but let's start from the basics of how Lumen did it.
There are three types of Zetol, three types of notes.
They are fleeting notes, literature notes, and permanent notes.
First, please.
notes.
These are the thoughts that come through our head as we go on our daily lives.
Whether shower thoughts,
thoughts that you have when you're taking a long walk,
when you're talking to friends that all of a sudden you have an epiphany,
these are thoughts that disappear very quickly so we must capture them first in notes.
The second type of notes are literature notes and this is what we write down when we are consuming content.
Whether it's reading a book,
an listening to a podcast,
watching a YouTube video,
watching the movie, listening to songs, doesn't matter what it is, when you're consuming content, you want to write down literature notes.
And capture first, one atomic idea each.
Now, no more than three to five sentences, then it also has to be
redescribed in your own words so that you internalize what is being said.
Then three,
you also want to be able to note down the references so you know exactly where it came from and you can always go back to reference it.
So now we have fleeting notes from our day, we have literature notes from when we consume content and when we are learning.
Then third type of notes are permanent notes.
We create permanent notes by reviewing what we've written in our fleeting notes and in our literature notes.
So the input is the literature notes and the fleeting thoughts that you've had and the output is the
permanent And as researcher Sonka Arrens says, the of a knowledge worker should be tracked by how many permanent notes you produce a day.
And rules for writing a permanent note is that one atomic idea per note.
To express the idea clearly, assuming the reader does not have context, three, connect them with the other notes in your system.
The rationale behind these rules are simple.
First, you want one idea per note because these are building blocks.
Each note is a building block where you can rearrange and connect with new ideas, old ideas, things that seemingly or not can.
connected, and so you want to be able to remove complexity and be able to rearrange these ideas.
Then you want to assume that the reader doesn't have any context, and this is because you are trying to make the system future-proof.
I'm sure this has happened to
in the moment we jot something down thinking I know exactly what I'm saying
and the next day you go back to this note and you have no idea what you wrote.
So to avoid that and to be able to articulate your ideas properly we want
to make sure that it is expressed clearly without needing a lot of context
so that not only occurs self can use this future self can use it.
this as well.
And we want to connect them within the system and this is really where the crux of the zedicastan breath that it comes in.
The connections is what makes your knowledge usable.
I'm sure most of us have this experience in school where we have all these isolated ideas.
summarized, but we don't know how to use them.
We know how to piece them together.
What is the bigger picture here?
And so the Zedok has the method.
It really is to help you think about the big picture and to see the interconnections between different ideas
and how they may relate to each other.
Which brings us to the next point of how to set The way the lumens set this up was using only two boxes, two castings.
The first one is reference, which had all of his literature notes categorized by a unique ID.
And the other box is ideas, which stored all the permanent notes that was based on the literature notes as well as fleeting.
Now, the fleeting notes weren't actually categorized, instead what he would do is review
it on a regular basis with the literature notes, and then, if appropriate, he would elevate it to a permanent note.
The most important aspect of Zercasten is that it is not a top-down.
So what I mean by that is that we don't create folders named,
you know, psychology, sociology, math, science and then we try to slot our nose into the categories.
We're not trying to force our ideas into a folder.
bottom-up approach where we have all the notes and we keep them there and over time we try to see
what comes out of these notes elevating our original ideas into permanent notes which dictate what topic they are what the ideas are about.
This way you can have a more multi-disciplinary approach.
You can see connections, intersections between ideas without abstractly limiting yourself by putting things into folders.
I'm a huge proponent of intersectional thinking.
This idea that the connection between ideas,
the intersection is where creativity happens, it's where innovation happens, it's where we realize how the world actually works.
And that's why Zetokastan, for me, is a really important system.
Now, I want to caveat by saying that the way that Lumen set up his Zetokastan might not make sense to you per se.
Depending on how you think, you might need to tweak things a little bit.
For example, with the boxes, some people will actually prefer to just have one.
box, put all the ideas in a fleeting notes, literature a permanent notes, all into one place,
and because they digitized it, it is easier for them to go in and search for things.
For others, it might be chronological that they think in time.
So think, okay, last week I had this idea and I think it connects to my idea now.
And so instead they would organize things by time or if you're a spatial thinker I am one of those I need to think
about things in okay this is the fleet note box this is the literature box and
this is my ideas box and to be able to know which idea belongs where and I know exactly how to return.
connect them together.
So there's a lot of flexibility in lumen system because it is so simple.
If you're interested, I walk through my setup of zerokasten in obsidian.
I actually write a lot of my notes by hand.
So I'll also show you how you can digitize.
so you can still have everything in one place and also how to sync it between different
devices because as I've talked about fleeting notes are the ones that you need to capture immediately
and sometimes you know all you have is your phone but you do most of your note taking your
computer so how do you sync things between devices I'll cover all of that Let me know in the comments if you're currently using zedocastin,
if getting into it now, if you're still on the fence, because ever since I started this, my creativity has increased, my productivity has increased.
It's so much easier for me to write my newsletter on intersectional thinking, so much easier to produce YouTube content.
I a huge list of things I want to write about,
talk to about and the best part is that you can start anywhere and over time you have
that satisfaction of seeing ideas emerge especially if you're using obsidian like
I am in the graph it will visually show you what the connections are and that
is so powerful not something that my measly mind with by itself.
So you're not building a second brain, you should really consider it.
And with that, if you found this video helpful, please give it a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't already.
I'll talk about more of how to create your personal knowledge management system in future videos.
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