How to Take Smart Notes

Key Ideas

1. Zettelkasten is your treasure trove of ideas
2. What are the overarching $Questions that go beyond any work I am following up on
3. Separate Zettelkasten from your projects

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4. What are the overarching ideas and questions that go beyond work I am following up on
5. Have I had a place to develop these ideas, not bound by a particular project
6. Seperate Zettelkasten from your GTD system, keep it apart, have links but don’t turn it into one big data bank
7. Where do I write consistently for a public audience?
8. Where do I keep track of references at the moment
9. Separate by projects, permanent notes and literature notes
10. Build up continuously while you are doing what you are doing
11. Have a clear understanding of the separation in your head - Does this belong to a project or my slip box
12. Have a reference folder, keep track of everything you read from others
13. Over time your thoughts will go to ideas that are sorted independently of projects
14. Integrate content from your finished projects into your slip box because this is your treasure trove of ideas
15. Build a critical mass in your slip box, development of ongoing ideas is like a conversation. A project aimed at a particular outcome should be kept separate
16. Only copy something into Zettelkasten if you want to think about it some more or use it later