Comments on: 8 Lessons from 800 Note Cards in the Zettelkasten https://herbertlui.net/8-lessons-from-800-note-cards-in-the-zettelkasten/ Blog on creativity, marketing, and the human condition. Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:57:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: JA https://herbertlui.net/8-lessons-from-800-note-cards-in-the-zettelkasten/#comment-70734 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:07:38 +0000 https://herbertlui.net/?p=563#comment-70734 It seems hard to beat Obsidian as a digital solution for Zettelkasten. Markdown, stored locally, totally free, 100s of plugins created and supported by the community, and of course the gorgeous map view that presents all your notes with lines between them to reflect linkages. But I also love Notion for organizing other things, so I’m always dabbling in both. Plus I love handwritten notes. It was interesting to hear how you moved to digital, but only as a secondary, duplicate system. Maybe I’ll try that too.

]]> By: Rachel Brekhus https://herbertlui.net/8-lessons-from-800-note-cards-in-the-zettelkasten/#comment-64330 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:29:56 +0000 https://herbertlui.net/?p=563#comment-64330 I like taking fleeting and literature (or lecture) notes on paper, and maintaining my permanent notes as a set of “Standalone Notes” in Zotero. Because sources are so easy to add to Zotero, it’s easy to connect my writing with sources. In the most recent version of Zotero one can even add citations to those standalone notes, so that, when you add notes into a Word document, the citations come right along with them, making the whole process of note taking, outlining, writing, and citing more tightly connected.

]]> By: LRF https://herbertlui.net/8-lessons-from-800-note-cards-in-the-zettelkasten/#comment-1585 Fri, 02 Jul 2021 06:59:49 +0000 https://herbertlui.net/?p=563#comment-1585 The app is probably “The Archive” – https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/

]]> By: Phil Davis https://herbertlui.net/8-lessons-from-800-note-cards-in-the-zettelkasten/#comment-1568 Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:11:58 +0000 https://herbertlui.net/?p=563#comment-1568 In reply to Lyndon Kessler.

What is the name of the app? Please don’t leave us in suspense!

]]> By: Lyndon Kessler https://herbertlui.net/8-lessons-from-800-note-cards-in-the-zettelkasten/#comment-891 Fri, 28 May 2021 22:25:21 +0000 https://herbertlui.net/?p=563#comment-891 I discovered a YouTube Zettelkasten. Two über-Geek multi Phd’s from Germany have developed a pure, searchable Zettelkasten that is auto indexed by digital date and content. Their app is downloadable. But…[it IS Mac only]. They worked extensively with the guy that developed ‘Notaional Velocity. The app is VERY fast searching your content. All relative cross linked info is displayed in less than 3-5 seconds. You don’t have to develop the links, the software does the heavy lifting. If you don’t use a Mac, this might be the only thing that could cause you to do so.

]]> By: Fred https://herbertlui.net/8-lessons-from-800-note-cards-in-the-zettelkasten/#comment-243 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:56:58 +0000 https://herbertlui.net/?p=563#comment-243 Thanks for the article; agree it is not easy to find a good converged analog digital workflow to take advantage of both. I think a writing tablet like remarkable 2 may be part of the solution. It has paper feel, templating (for size constraints), and is analog (between the user and the tablet). It also has integrated OCR which suggests it could be integrated into a digital solution with low friction and has an open/hackable operating system/interface. Sky is probably the limit. I haven’t quite figured it out myself, but perhaps this comment will inspire others.

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