Tag Archives: Zettelkasten

Video Demonstration of Org-roam

If you’re wondering what org-roam is all about, there are a couple of useful videos over at the YouTube Emacs Elements channel. The first video explains what org-roam is and how it works. It works through a couple of examples … Continue reading

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Note Making

Anne-Laure Le Cunff over at Ness Labs has an interesting article on the difference between note taking and note making. One way of thinking of the difference is to consider note making as active note taking. Rather than simply record … Continue reading

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Zettelkasten Explained and Demoed

Continuing with yesterday’s theme about Zettelkastens, today I’d like to point you at two videos that explain and demonstrate the idea. The first, ZETTELKASTEN METHOD (Explained Clearly with Examples and Software), by Mike and Matty, two brothers who are physicians … Continue reading

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Zettelkasten Goes Mainstream

Until March of this year, I had never heard the term “Zettelkasten” or anything about the concept to which it applies. I first came across the idea in a post by Tiago Forte, which pointed me to Sönke Ahrens’ book, … Continue reading

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Zettelkastens in 10 Minutes

Tomas Vik has a very nice post introducing the Zettelkasten concept. He says that rather than spending hours researching the Zettelkasten idea, you can just read his post and get a good introduction. I especially liked his section on the … Continue reading

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Roam Research

Those of you who have been paying attention know that I’m embarking on a project to implement a Zettelkasten to organize my notes and ideas. My current plan is to base this on Jethro Kuan’s org-roam. Org-roam is an Emacs … Continue reading

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Zetteldeft

This is another entry in my series of posts on the idea of a Zettelkasten. Although I’ve mostly written about and am planning to use org-roam, that’s not the only possibility. Elias Storms built his own Zettelkasten by leveraging the … Continue reading

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Zettelkasten Explained

I’ve finished reading Sönke Ahrens’ How to Take Smart Notes and, as promised, I’ve started exploring Jethro Kuan’s Org-roam as a way of implementing my own Zettelkasten. I’ve downloaded and installed Org-roam and am currently going over the documentation. In … Continue reading

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