Stop Taking Regular Notes Use a Zettelkasten Instead

Here’s how a Zettelkasten works:

• Write each idea you come across on a card

• Link idea cards to other relevant idea cards (idea -> idea link)

• Sort cards into broader topic boxes (idea -> topic link)

Literature notes

• Add useful docs (papers, books) as a literature note

• Metadata includes: literaturenote tag, source, author

• Summarise content, each key idea as a simple sentence

• Elaborate on each key idea with some bullet points

Permanent notes

• 写 Permanent notes 的两条标准

  • Would I explore this further?

  • Or can I connect this to other ideas?

• Permanent notes 的 metadata

  • permanentnote tag

  • topic tags

  • Source，literature note link

  • relevant permanent notes and short explanation of how it is relevant

  • Add summary in prose

Topics

• This comes free if you’ve been adding topic tags

• You can now jump into topics via tags and navigate via links of relevant permanent notes

具体实践可以参考

• Why and How to Read Papers (applyingml.com) [[how to read a paper]]