Hi Scott, thank you again for this wonderful video! Haha, also thank you for mentioning the shaking hands and frame in the end. I believe your videos are so high dense and of good quality, they only require a little amount of editing and are good to go. Just like the initial period of Ali Abdaal, his videos of the early period were not edited by super professional skills, just so basic things with it. But I love his videos because the contents are so great, just like yours.
You might want to check out book called Weinberg on Writing:The Fieldstone Method by Gerald Weinberg. Might be out of print. He uses something similar to zettelkasten. Using fieldstones as a metaphor. You gather random stones(ideas) until you have a pile of them, and then you use the pile to build a wall/foundation etc(write a book). Lot of similarities with zettelkasten, but not so strict.
I'm so glad to see this comment. Weinberg was a prolific writer and connector of dots. Weinberg on Writing is full of joy, and although he doesn't use the same terminology as Luhmann, he certainly gives the sense of experiencing a surprise-filled collaboration with his second mind via his fieldstone method.
I got an idea to use zettelkasten also to write down on notes my ideas or inspiration for creating my art and films. I hear everywhere zettelkasten is for writing non-fiction and I know Luhmann wrote non-fiction but I think it can be also useful for writing fiction. David Lynch uses the sequence paradigm of screenwriting which was developed by his teacher Frank Daniel from AFI. It's written in a biography book about Lynch Room to Dream. The sequence paradigm is a method which uses 70 note cards for a feature length film where screenwriter is going to write 70 elements that relate to certain scenes. Then he/she organizes note cards in an order which perfectly fits his vision. I think there is something common with zettelkasten, but the sequence paradigm is about brainstorming, I guess, which is less effective and productive than zettelkasten where the ideas already are. I think using zettelkasten would be the most productive and effective for artists working with their ideas. I am going to try and use zettelkasten for both learning (non-fiction) and also creating art (fiction).
Hi Scott- great video- lots to consume. 1 question, while you were researching for your book and creating your collective/section where would you place a note from an idea that may already be linked to another section of your antinet? Do you simply add it to your index, keep it in your new « book » branch or do you file it behind the original / similar card? Thanks again for all your work!
I put the idea in the most similar and appropriate section. For instance my antinet book branch is 4214. However I have a branch for Analog benefits and writing by hand in section 5426. So I place those cards there. (As they stemmed from something initially related to that branch). In my Antinet section collective (at the front of 4214 I simply have an entry that says “Writing By Hand Benefits and General: 5426” Always always always file the card in the most similar or related location that your brain thinks and feels naturally is best.
Question…do you have one main slip box? Or do you do what Luhman says and have 2…one for reference and one for permanent notes? Seems that 1 main box is what will work for me
One main notebox. I have a drawer (branch) for my Bibliography like Luhmann did, but it’s just one main notebox. I think Ahrens confuses people when he says there’s two noteboxes. Luhmann in his own mind only had one notebox. The bibliography is just working material before he creates his Reflection notes.
@@scottscheper Just in general, I feel like I’m on a roller coaster ride sometimes. For example in the beginning of this video you were teeing up the what you would talk about today and the camera was going back and forth to different areas of the room until you rested finally on specific cards you were showing. I understand moving it around is part of the video but maybe minimize the random left right and back again stuff unless there is a specific target you are speaking about as it’s a little tough to watch sometimes and I want to watch the whole thing, too much good info to miss.
Nice. I only disagree with analog because it limits you. I know i did it for a long time but i guess whatever works for you. I upgraded my methods when I heard that computers a bicycle for your mind as Steve Jobs says. A place for everything and everything its place. Check out Lisas Study Guides yt channel where she talks about zettelekasten amd how she teaches it to her students..
This is one of your concise and under rated video on making a book. You helped a lot as an unsung hero.
Hi Scott, thank you again for this wonderful video! Haha, also thank you for mentioning the shaking hands and frame in the end. I believe your videos are so high dense and of good quality, they only require a little amount of editing and are good to go. Just like the initial period of Ali Abdaal, his videos of the early period were not edited by super professional skills, just so basic things with it. But I love his videos because the contents are so great, just like yours.
You might want to check out book called Weinberg on Writing:The Fieldstone Method by Gerald Weinberg. Might be out of print. He uses something similar to zettelkasten. Using fieldstones as a metaphor. You gather random stones(ideas) until you have a pile of them, and then you use the pile to build a wall/foundation etc(write a book). Lot of similarities with zettelkasten, but not so strict.
I'm so glad to see this comment. Weinberg was a prolific writer and connector of dots. Weinberg on Writing is full of joy, and although he doesn't use the same terminology as Luhmann, he certainly gives the sense of experiencing a surprise-filled collaboration with his second mind via his fieldstone method.
I got an idea to use zettelkasten also to write down on notes my ideas or inspiration for creating my art and films. I hear everywhere zettelkasten is for writing non-fiction and I know Luhmann wrote non-fiction but I think it can be also useful for writing fiction. David Lynch uses the sequence paradigm of screenwriting which was developed by his teacher Frank Daniel from AFI. It's written in a biography book about Lynch Room to Dream. The sequence paradigm is a method which uses 70 note cards for a feature length film where screenwriter is going to write 70 elements that relate to certain scenes. Then he/she organizes note cards in an order which perfectly fits his vision. I think there is something common with zettelkasten, but the sequence paradigm is about brainstorming, I guess, which is less effective and productive than zettelkasten where the ideas already are. I think using zettelkasten would be the most productive and effective for artists working with their ideas. I am going to try and use zettelkasten for both learning (non-fiction) and also creating art (fiction).
Luhmann said himself that anything that can be written down on a notecard is suitable and useful for a Zettelkasten. Not just non-fiction.
@@scottscheper Thank you for your answer. I didn't know about it. That's great!
Hi Scott- great video- lots to consume.
1 question, while you were researching for your book and creating your collective/section where would you place a note from an idea that may already be linked to another section of your antinet? Do you simply add it to your index, keep it in your new « book » branch or do you file it behind the original / similar card?
Thanks again for all your work!
I put the idea in the most similar and appropriate section. For instance my antinet book branch is 4214. However I have a branch for Analog benefits and writing by hand in section 5426. So I place those cards there. (As they stemmed from something initially related to that branch). In my Antinet section collective (at the front of 4214 I simply have an entry that says “Writing By Hand Benefits and General: 5426”
Always always always file the card in the most similar or related location that your brain thinks and feels naturally is best.
@@scottscheper awesome.
Question…do you have one main slip box? Or do you do what Luhman says and have 2…one for reference and one for permanent notes? Seems that 1 main box is what will work for me
One main notebox. I have a drawer (branch) for my Bibliography like Luhmann did, but it’s just one main notebox. I think Ahrens confuses people when he says there’s two noteboxes. Luhmann in his own mind only had one notebox. The bibliography is just working material before he creates his Reflection notes.
Please forgive my rude comment. I am so trying to learn this
The constant camera moving without focusing on what you’re talking about is jarring. Anyway to lessen that a bit?
Not really sure what you mean. I’m sure you’re correct but any specific timestamp example you can show me? Or the whole thing?
@@scottscheper Just in general, I feel like I’m on a roller coaster ride sometimes. For example in the beginning of this video you were teeing up the what you would talk about today and the camera was going back and forth to different areas of the room until you rested finally on specific cards you were showing. I understand moving it around is part of the video but maybe minimize the random left right and back again stuff unless there is a specific target you are speaking about as it’s a little tough to watch sometimes and I want to watch the whole thing, too much good info to miss.
Please stop roaming around with your video camera - watch some other videos and see how this is done. You are confusing
I get more annoyed about the poor layout of the room ....lol. It looks so disorganised for someone that is talking about organisation
Nice. I only disagree with analog because it limits you. I know i did it for a long time but i guess whatever works for you. I upgraded my methods when I heard that computers a bicycle for your mind as Steve Jobs says. A place for everything and everything its place. Check out Lisas Study Guides yt channel where she talks about zettelekasten amd how she teaches it to her students..
The only right answer is test