Sönke Ahrens

El método Zettelkasten

Pedro Giménez

Just read it for the second time, this time in Spanish just in case I was missing something. I find the book pretty helpful and it was my introduction to the Zettelkasten. However, I've struggled since the first time I read the book to put it into practice. My main issue is that the book doesn't offer any specific examples besides some tips/guide on how to write academic essays which is not what I'm pursuing.

I've tried to adapt this to Roam and the flow I'm currently using is the following one:

1.- I use daily notes as fleeting notes (or notas bibliográficas).
2.- At the end of the day, I pick relevant chunks of these notes and turn them into literature notes (which are kind of a middle step between fleeting notes and permanent notes).
3.- When I find something particularly useful in these notes or I see myself drawing some kind of principle from them, I write a permanent note.
4.- I try to kind of cluster them using index notes.

This is what has worked for me so far but I'm always eager to improve the flow.

El método Zettelkasten

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