1/22/2024 0 Comments Omnifocus website![]() ![]() I do most of my initial outlining by drawing a mindmap, using Mindnode on Mac, iPhone and iPad. The idea is that bullet point lists make it easier to rearrange things and thinking and writing in bullet points encourages you to be concise. Rather than starting to write down full text, one starts with small units - bullet points, then adds headings and only then fleshes out the text in full text paragraphs. Outlining is an important strategy for researchers who draft manuscripts or their theses. Roam and Remnote are in their initial appearance apps for outlining, very similar to Workflowy and Dynalist. The question is what these new new apps add, that the established ones don’t have. Other apps, like DevonThink and TheBrain on Mac has long supported the management of large numbers of notes and have also supported finding relationships between notes. The ones I listed above have probably received most attention. More apps have emerged with support for back-linking, offering new experiences in note-taking. Note long after Andy Matuschak’s webpage, the ideas led to the creation of new tools for note taking and learning, most notably, and obsidian.mdīack-linking has since been introduced in various other apps, including web-based all-in-one workspace Notion and the calendar-driven notetaking app Noteplan (iOS, Mac). The implementation of these ideas were really a fantastic idea, taking the Zettelkasten approach back into a modern setting. The preview and “ back-linking” supports easy navigation between notes and thereby supports finding links between notes and ideas. The linked note has at the bottom a list of other notes that link to the note.One can view and edit several notes together. Clicking on the link, opens the other note, together with the previous note.When hovering over a linked word or sentence, one can preview that other note.The key elements of Matuschak’s web-based tool, that set off the hype are: There is thus the idea of a writing process, and the tool to support this process. Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies.Evergreen notes should be densely linked.Evergreen notes should be concept-oriented.In order to create notes that are worth developing over time, he stated the following principles: Rather than just implementing the Zettelkasten technique using a web-based tool, Andy Matuschak evolved Luhmann"s Zettelkasten by introducing the process of writing Evergreen Notes as “a fundamental unit of knowledge work”. The key is that one not only goes from one note to the other, but can easily navigate back, and is supported in finding other notes that link to the one under consideration. Matuschak’s Evergreen note webpage includes so called wiki style links, where pieces of text are marked and turned into a link to another note where the title is the marked text. Instead of just having a blog post on the topic, Matuschak presented his idea with a webpage that implements and supports the Zettelkasten technique, using an web-based environment: /Evergreen_notes Evergreen Notes Andy Matuschak advanced ideas in Ahrens’ book by introducing the idea of “evergreen notes”. ![]() In a 2020 YouTube video youtu.be/nPOI4f7圜ag he describes the history and ideas behind the Zettelkasten technique. ![]() Sönke Ahrens published in 2017 the book How to take smart notes, which picked up on the Zettelkasten idea and discussed its value to boost writing, learning and thinking. from other papers), learning and thinking is supported by formulating the notes in your own words. the notes are short (“atomic notes”), focussing on one idea,. ![]() The key ideas of note taking using the Zettelkasten technique are He used this system quite successfully to write research papers and books. The origin of the Zettelkasten technique is usually attributed to Niklas Luhmann, who had a system of small cards (Zettel) and slipboxes (Kasten) to collect notes and link them through a numbering system. I decided to have a go at using those techniques and apps, some of the observations I like to share here. Taking “ smart notes” did not play a role in my seminars, until the renewed interest in the Zettelkasten technique, evergreen notes, and apps like Roam Research, Obsidian, RemNote and Notion created quite a stir in the Internet. In addition to my regular lectures on data analysis and mathematical modelling, I offer three seminars helping senior students and young scientists with scientific writing, writing grant proposals and a seminar on productivity, time and project management. I am a professor, based in an institute of computer science. Zettelkasten, Roam, Obsidian, RemNote, Notion and Co ![]()
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