Zettelkasten - How to use it?
This is Xinyun's personal knowledge base. I use it to store my notes, ideas, and resources publicly.
- 01-Fleeting notes
- Fleeting notes are temporary reminders of ideas.
- 02-Literature notes
- fleeting notes and pick out the ideas that you really want to keep
- One idea per note
- One Source
- 03-Permanent notes/Summary notes
- Multiple sources
- 04-Index notes
- a cluster of related permanent notes
- outline for an article
- 05-Keyword notes
- with tag
- table of contents for a book or entry
Structure logics
- Folders are named in PARA (opens in a new tab) format - optimizing for
- P - near-term projects I want to do (Deadline)
- A - standards I want to upkeep
- R - resources for stuff I like
- Z - Draft to clean up
- Archive - for misc past junk I don't see myself needing any more
- STAR Method (Situation, Task, Action, and Result) #goal (opens in a new tab)
- OKR methodology (Objectives and Key Results) #goal (opens in a new tab)