Building an Antinet Zettelkasten and Creating Exrefs (1-on-1 with Steve Heimler)
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Thank you for going through the process. This has been very helpful as i start my own.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:02 📚 *Introduction and Background*
- Steve Heimler's background in teaching AP history.
- Initial fascination and confusion with Zettelkasten and Obsidian.
- The goal of setting up a productive Zettelkasten system.
01:28 🤝 *Getting Started with Steve*
- Steve's excitement and eagerness to start.
- The plan to establish the three boxes: Main, Bibliography, and Index.
04:12 🎯 *Defining Goals*
- Steve's ambitions, including writing books and creating TH-cam content.
- The desire to explore various passions and subjects.
06:18 🔨 *Initial Book Selection*
- Steve's choice of books, including Leo Tolstoy's "What is Art."
- The intention to understand and apply the book's concepts.
11:39 🗂 *Setting Up Boxes*
- Organizing the three boxes: Bibliography, Index, and Main.
- Explanation of the classification system using academic disciplines.
20:08 📖 *Understanding Tolstoy's Book*
- Steve's description of Tolstoy's "What is Art."
- Exploring the book's critique of conventional definitions of art.
24:34 📚 *Categorizing Notes*
- Introduction to using Wikipedia's academic disciplines for categorization.
- The approach to classifying notes based on the book's content.
24:49 📚 *Creating a Philosophy of Art Section*
- Creating a dedicated section for philosophy of art.
- Mapping the section to 1600 in the hierarchy.
- Planning to create a branch within philosophy for philosophy of art at 1620.
26:30 🔀 *Structure of Philosophy Section*
- Explaining the arbitrary numbering system for organizing sections.
- Discussing the importance of creating a dedicated key term index card for major sections.
- Balancing order and randomness in organizing knowledge.
27:29 📂 *Setting Up Index Cards*
- Introducing the use of index cards for organizing information.
- Starting with a card for "Philosophy" at 1600.
- Preparing for further organization using colored cards and letters.
29:05 🗂 *Index Card Organization*
- Discussing the potential evolution of index card organization over time.
- Explaining how to create dedicated key term index cards for major sections.
- Demonstrating the use of index cards for efficient organization.
35:32 📚 *Strategies for Extracting Information*
- Explaining two extraction strategies: direct to main card and bib card to main card.
- Advantages of using bib cards as a staging area to avoid getting bogged down while reading.
- Choosing the appropriate extraction method based on the book and time constraints.
38:18 📖 *Excerpting and Reformulating Quotes*
- Advising against excerpting long quotes on bib cards.
- Recommending writing the page number and a brief description of the quote.
- Emphasizing the importance of neuro-imprinting concepts for easy recall.
39:40 ✍️ *Creating a Main Note*
- Creating a main note titled "Definition of Art."
- Formulating a concise definition based on Tolstoy's ideas.
- Writing the main note as if teaching the concept and attributing it to Tolstoy.
44:31 📜 *Main Note Attribution*
- Adding Tolstoy's name and page number in the bottom left corner.
- Organizing the main note in the "Philosophy of Art" section at 1620/1.
- Suggesting the use of variant notes for alternative definitions in the future.
53:04 🎨 *Problems with other definitions of art*
- Good and beautiful are not the same thing.
- Ancient perspective on the relationship between good and beautiful.
01:12:08 🖼️ *The importance of art*
- Art is a fundamental condition of human life.
- Art serves as a form of communion among humans.
- Art goes beyond being a mere luxury or decoration.
01:18:21 📚 *Understanding the placement of notes in Zettelkasten:*
- Switching between bottom right and bottom left for note placement.
- The importance of consistency in note placement for clarity.
- The use of footnotes for additional information.
01:19:00 🗂 *Organizing notes in Zettelkasten:*
- Discussing a new idea related to an existing note (16/20).
- Exploring the concept of art creating human communion.
- Linking related notes to build a coherent knowledge system.
01:20:23 📖 *Exploring the transition in human beliefs:*
- Discussing the shift from a world where belief in God was central to one where atheism emerged.
- The impact of the Protestant Reformation and Enlightenment on beliefs.
- Implications of this transition on various aspects, including art and human perspective.
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Thanks both of for publishing this. It would be interesting to check back in with Steve and see how his notes are going. There could be some good lesson learned there.
I really appreciate this tutorial. You go beyond why the anti net is beneficial and give concrete examples on how to set up the notecard system. Thanks!
Of course no problem. Now, the real question is: are you a sexual atheist, or an asexual atheist?
These videos are gold!! Thank you so much for sharing them!! They make a world of difference.
Incredibly helpful. I was stuck on how & where to start. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
The enlightenment connection between Taylor and Tolstoy in terms of changing attitudes and practices of religion is great. Definitely write that down on a note!
Thank you so much for doing and sharing this process. It has been extremely useful to me. That you are a year into the ANTINet gives me great hope that I can disentangle my mental, analog and digital information I have been amassing for the past several years. Your system is going to be integral to this process. I can't wait for your book in December! Is such a critical analysis, translation & evolution of the original method.
Thank you so much for sharing this session! I was intimidated to start my own Zettelkasten, so I watch this a couple times, then I watched it and I went along and created my first main cards! It was so so so much easier having a step by step, detailed guide like this! Thanks to both of you!
Of course
Been here since the ~200 mark, but soooo close to 1k subscribers! Keep the great videos coming!
Gracias por esta valiosa informacion, me aclararon muchas dudas acerca del sistema y creo que podre comenzar, de nuevo gracias.
I've been using a digital zettelkasten for about 6 months now. I've already written 2 books using, (i guess you could call it) the traditional way of starting with an idea, then searching for information about that topic and building as you go. I'm using my zettlekasten for my 3rd book on trading systems. I like how the inter-linking system works. Thats where the magic is in this system imo. That and the relationship between the links. Its like your own personal search engine of ideas. Start with a topic or keyword and see what it gives you. It takes some serious work however to get there. I was putting in around 2 hours a day for about 6 months. I do notice however that it can go off on tangents just like my mind does lol. It can give some good ideas that you didn't anticipate. The system i was using before with a traditional folder system and then just using search terms to peruse the data you've amassed works well. I;m weighing the pros and cons of both systems to see which ill keep going forward.I have ALOT of information. Its a small library. Over 1500 books, courses, random notes etc. I've read scotts book but im still not swayed by the analog way. It can defiantly work. I think the trick to going digital is just keeping it as simple as possible. All the updates, plugins just creates like he says more busywork. The biggest 2 reasons im still digital is that 1)its far faster and easier to create notes and link them than writing them out by hand. 2) and you can just back up all your work on the cloud. what are you going to do if there is a fire or flood and all that work gets destroyed? YIKES!
when you are consuming content of any kind and you start getting ideas. Then your mind starts going off on tangents. This i think may be the best way to track all those tangents of thought and see where they lead to. sometimes nowhere but sometimes its extrmely useful.
As an Enneagram 4, you may want to have a 6000 for Miscellaneous. I wonder if the initial structure of academic discipline may already feel too confining for you. With a Misc. category you would have a spot to just put something somewhere rather than getting stuck with where to put it or feeling overly confined.
Great walk through. I found this episode particularly helpful. Quick question RE the index: What is the rule for indexing a keyword... It doesn't seem like it should be all of the main notes, so is it just the branches and we navigate from there? Thanks again!
If it's important and you want to be able to find it easily, create an index keyterm for it. Arbitrary. You determine 👊🗃✍🏼
Sounds like there’s many small projects: sermons, youtube videos, lessons/units for AP history, and some more general areas/projects: theory of communication (and/or theory of art), probably theology and philosophy.
Quick question Scott: Where did you get the lock boxes you use for your antinet? Thanks!
Vaultz Filing Cabinets 4x6"
I'm keeping my eye out for institutions like libraries and universities getting rid of 4x6 card filing systems. Ad I can afford the $140/2-drawer system, I found that Stearite plastic lidded shoe boxes and IKEA SAMLA 7"x11" plastic boxes fit 4x6 cards well. Improvise something to keep cards from falling down.
Scott I have a question about exrefs: when you do eventually develop them and make a main note, do you add the new card ID to the exref card so you don't forget that you deveolped it?
Great question. Normally I do not, but I don't see how that could hurt. It's a tradeoff of time vs. value.
I have a question for you, Scott - I'm still on the fence over whether to use an Analog vs Digital Zettelkasten. I do, however, find your videos on the Zettelkasten to be the best I have found on TH-cam.
The crux of what appeals to me about a Digital Zettelkasten is its portability. My work can take me away from home for extended periods at a time and I would want constant access to my Zettelkasten. What benefit does an Analog system have over, say, just using a naming convention of ones notes that mimics the Zettelkasten's addressing system? e.g '1110-1a Why the Antinet is better than Obsidian-based Zettelkastens'
Test both.
@@scottscheper That's a fair suggestion. Best by test.
Same but DDC for numbering
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