Great video. I am working with law, psychology and Christianity. Law is challenging because I have rules of court, statutes and case law rather than books. In Christianity, I have Bible verses, sermons, and commentary. For psychology, I have text books, the DSM manual and books. I have watched videos on all 3 areas. My question is how do you make cards for some of these special sources like statutes, cases, Bible verses, etc.
Thank you, Michaela. I am using books for the Minimalist series to keep things as simple as possible, but any source can function in the same way. For your law research, each case can have its own Bib Card. You will want to keep all details that you need to know on your Bib Cards and all ideas that you want to discuss or work with should also become Main Cards. It's those ideas that will interact with other cases that either cite the same law or precedent and especially any cases decided in the opposite direction so that you will know what made the difference in outcome. Bible verses have standard abbreviations for citing those can go directly onto Main Cards, but you could, if you like, create Bib Cards to gather Bible verses on specific themes such as love, hope, or redemption. For Bible verses you might well want to quote them exactly as your preferred translation does, but do not neglect to include your reflection. Commentary comes in the form of books, articles, sermons, and videos which can be treated just as you would any other book, article, lecture, or video. For psychology, let me treat the DSM manual first. Not to equate it with the Bible in any way, but it can be handled in the same manner. Use standard abbreviations when referencing and only keep Bib Cards if you want to collect passages on selected themes. Books, you can treat like any book. But textbooks you have an interesting option. You can treat you course textbooks as described in this video: th-cam.com/video/xEDHP2W80Kw/w-d-xo.html titled: Establishing Structure Using a Foundational Book. Videos can be treated much like books. Instead of a page number, use a time stamp for the location. Lectures, when they are recorded are treated just like videos. Live lectures (including live classroom lectures) can be annotated directly onto a bib card while the lecture is in progress. Every so often note the clock time for referenced when you are looking back through your notes. I hope this helps. Let me know how it goes for you.
Kathleen, this is such a powerful series! So far I’ve just been watching and saying I’ll actually DO the steps later (which I know is counterproductive). As I get ready to take the plunge though and catch up on steps, a central barrier is my lack of confidence in writing the “best”taglines. They seem so critical to a well functioning Zettelkasten. Any tagline creation tips for a timid beginner? Thanks for all you do! So grateful to have discovered this series and all of your work!
Good morning- quick question as I keep finding better ways to do things in my zettelkasten. Are your foundation cards the same as categorizing by the academic disciplines like Scott Shepard does? There seems to be more friction for me doing it that way?
They can serve the same purpose. I'm gradually converting any category cards I have in my system to foundation cards. Yes, foundation cards have much more friction and at the same time much more utility. With categories, there is a tendency to classify a new main card and deposit into the correct slot by category where it has been neatly and properly filed. Period. Foundation cards support the process of adding new main cards by letting the tagline of the new card find the conversation that it most wants to participate in. The interaction of ideas is the fundamental act of placing a new main card. Category cards do not readily participate in conversations and so they were becoming dead spots in my ZK. Converting them to foundation cards bring them back to life.
I actually meant the categories system adds friction for me because of having to figure out which of the disciplines each card should fall under. I like the foundation card method much better. It’s more organic to have broad topics create themselves so to speak.
Great video. I am working with law, psychology and Christianity. Law is challenging because I have rules of court, statutes and case law rather than books. In Christianity, I have Bible verses, sermons, and commentary. For psychology, I have text books, the DSM manual and books. I have watched videos on all 3 areas. My question is how do you make cards for some of these special sources like statutes, cases, Bible verses, etc.
Thank you, Michaela. I am using books for the Minimalist series to keep things as simple as possible, but any source can function in the same way. For your law research, each case can have its own Bib Card. You will want to keep all details that you need to know on your Bib Cards and all ideas that you want to discuss or work with should also become Main Cards. It's those ideas that will interact with other cases that either cite the same law or precedent and especially any cases decided in the opposite direction so that you will know what made the difference in outcome.
Bible verses have standard abbreviations for citing those can go directly onto Main Cards, but you could, if you like, create Bib Cards to gather Bible verses on specific themes such as love, hope, or redemption. For Bible verses you might well want to quote them exactly as your preferred translation does, but do not neglect to include your reflection. Commentary comes in the form of books, articles, sermons, and videos which can be treated just as you would any other book, article, lecture, or video.
For psychology, let me treat the DSM manual first. Not to equate it with the Bible in any way, but it can be handled in the same manner. Use standard abbreviations when referencing and only keep Bib Cards if you want to collect passages on selected themes. Books, you can treat like any book. But textbooks you have an interesting option. You can treat you course textbooks as described in this video: th-cam.com/video/xEDHP2W80Kw/w-d-xo.html titled: Establishing Structure Using a Foundational Book.
Videos can be treated much like books. Instead of a page number, use a time stamp for the location. Lectures, when they are recorded are treated just like videos. Live lectures (including live classroom lectures) can be annotated directly onto a bib card while the lecture is in progress. Every so often note the clock time for referenced when you are looking back through your notes.
I hope this helps. Let me know how it goes for you.
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Kathleen, this is such a powerful series! So far I’ve just been watching and saying I’ll actually DO the steps later (which I know is counterproductive). As I get ready to take the plunge though and catch up on steps, a central barrier is my lack of confidence in writing the “best”taglines. They seem so critical to a well functioning Zettelkasten. Any tagline creation tips for a timid beginner? Thanks for all you do! So grateful to have discovered this series and all of your work!
What a great question, Cyndi. If you don't mind waiting a few hours, I would love to make your question my topic for this evening's video.
Okay, Cyndi, I made this video for YOU. Thank you for your wonderful question: th-cam.com/video/UP4a8R_Kq6A/w-d-xo.html
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Good morning- quick question as I keep finding better ways to do things in my zettelkasten. Are your foundation cards the same as categorizing by the academic disciplines like Scott Shepard does? There seems to be more friction for me doing it that way?
They can serve the same purpose. I'm gradually converting any category cards I have in my system to foundation cards. Yes, foundation cards have much more friction and at the same time much more utility. With categories, there is a tendency to classify a new main card and deposit into the correct slot by category where it has been neatly and properly filed. Period.
Foundation cards support the process of adding new main cards by letting the tagline of the new card find the conversation that it most wants to participate in. The interaction of ideas is the fundamental act of placing a new main card. Category cards do not readily participate in conversations and so they were becoming dead spots in my ZK. Converting them to foundation cards bring them back to life.
I actually meant the categories system adds friction for me because of having to figure out which of the disciplines each card should fall under. I like the foundation card method much better. It’s more organic to have broad topics create themselves so to speak.
@@TheOlderGamer1973 Interesting. Then we are very alike in how we prefer to work with our ZK's.