Notes in Practice: Creating a Permanent Note for My Zettelkasten
Hi Reader,
Happy Thursday! I'm excited to continue our series on the Zettelkasten note-taking method...
Last week, I wrote about Luhmann's three types of notes (fleeting notes, literature notes, and permanent notes). Moving through this 3-step process is meant to facilitate learning and understanding. But what does that look like?
There's a lot of content on the internet about how Zettelkasten works in theory, but very little to SHOW us how it works in practice. So I wrote an article to show you one of my own permanent notes - and, more importantly, how I got there.
Article of the Week: My Step by Step Process to Create a Permanent Note in Zettelkasten
The article recaps the three types of notes, and then shares an example of my own - including photos and screenshots from both my physical notebook and Obsidian.
I hope this gives you a better idea of what this process looks like in practice! Don't pay much attention to the metadata in this example - we'll cover linking / tags in future emails.
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Sincerely,
Brooke H
Brooke Harrison
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