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title: "💠Note-taking with Zettelkasten - An Introduction - YouTube"
description: "!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1NJYnZCfmY"
date: 2024-07-25
published: true
tags:
- blog
- zettelkasten
- thought
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Niklas Luhmann created the Zettelkasten method of notetaking, He was the Da Vinci of writing, holding a high standard that we can take inspiration from even today in this digital era.
As many times as I have seem the Zettelkasten covered, I never knew that it roughly translated to little cards in a box.
## Four Principles
Mischa lays out four principles of Zettelkasten.
* Atomic - _each card conains one idea_
* Link - _cards are linked together_
* Structure - _comes from the links_
* Own Words - _You write the note in your own words_
My blog, tils, and thoughts make up my own zettelkasten. I am not going to say that mine is a perfect representation of his method, but the components are here. rather than building books, my thoughts and tils build up to blog posts. The rate of blog posts I write definitely changes with the seasons of life, as seasons change it becomes a bigger or smaller part of the season.
I really like Mischa's most important note to Write in your own words, this is what really promotes learning, and proves to yourself that you can form a thought around the topic. Up until recently I've wrote everything, but lately I've taken to copy pasting some quotes into my thoughts posts, but I think this is fine, because generally its used to build on the narrative and give me a place to talk about the linked post.
!!! note
This post is a thought. It's a short note that I make
about someone else's content online #thoughts