Poetry in Practice
There are many adherents to the Zettelkasten methodology. I use some of the principles of a formal Zettelkasten but not all. For example, I don’t use a date prefix or suffix for my notes.
I think I will use the nomenclature of Note-Making System from now on to avoid any confusion.
Your thoughts evolve. If they don’t you have adopted fixed positions. You may no longer be open-minded, susceptible, exploratory.
My values include a life-long commitment to personal development. My search for the Well-Lived Life means I will have to go on looking. Thoughts in Progress (TIP) are thoughts on the way to becoming articulated and/or realised ideas.
A Digital Garden is a place where you curate and share your ideas. The point of a Digital Garden is that ideas are emergent; they are Thoughts in Progress (TIP) rather than your completed ones.
This notion of Thoughts in Progress (TIP) is one of the ways a Digital Garden is distinguished from a conventional blog.
I have a small garden of my own called Poetry in Practice.
Over the years, I’ve used many note-taking apps.
I really like Bear . For a long time, this was my note app of choice. You can chuck lots of different things at it, including web clips. Bear also stores your notes as Markdown, so there’s no fear of losing them. The notes don’t really play that well with other apps, and you can’t use it alongside Obsidian because there’s no way I’ve been able to find to access Bear’s notes from Obsidian.
The term ‘Evergreen Notes‘ is used by Andy Matushak to describe notes which are more than fleeting.
Evergreen Notes adhere to the Zettelkasten Principles which makes recording useful notes easier to do consistently.
I have developed my own terminology. Instead of Evergreen Notes, I use the term Cornerstone Note because I like the idea that they are building blocks of information.
In order to build a functioning Note-Making System, one that is capable of deepening your understanding about your Areas of Interest, you should adhere to a set of principles. These principles make it easier for you to connect your thinking as it develops, creating linked ideas and concepts. This is one of the ways knowldge turns into wisdom.
In previous attempts at creating and maintaining Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMSs), I have thrown lots of material into my storage facility DEVONthink. I was of course thereby demonstrating that I had fallen prey to the Collectors Fallacy.
Items which were stored in DEVONthink may have passed a threshold of interest, but they were prone to two problems:
I designed a methodology called Information Flow that helps me manage what appears in my Note-Making System (NMS).
The term ‘Evergreen Notes’ is used by Andy Matushak to describe notes which are more than fleeting.
Evergreen notes adhere to the Zettelkasten Principles which makes it easier to do consistently.
I have developed my own terminology. Instead of Evergreen Notes, I use the term Cornerstone Note because I like the idea that they are building blocks of information.