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| How to Create Useful Links with Zettelkasten | The linking feature of Zettelkasten is one of its most defining features, yet, it’s the least understood. Linking ideas should be natural for us, but a lifetime of organization with the tree structure has made it difficult to adopt this new form of organization. | 2022-04-29 | 2022-04-29 |
The linking feature of notes/Zettelkasten is one of its notes/connecting ideas is powerful, yet, it's the least understood. Linking ideas should be notes/linking ideas should be natural for us, but a lifetime of organization with the notes/organization with the tree structure has made it difficult to adopt this new form of organization. In order to make links useful, we'll notes/old habits make it hard to learn new things. This is an entire paradigm shift, so don't expect it to be easy.
Don't group things, connect them
The biggest mistake—and one I've made myself—is linking with categories. In other words, it's adding links like we would with tags. When we link this way we're more focused on notes/To create useful links, we need to connect, not group. As a result, we have notes that contain many connections with little to no relevance. Additionally, we add notes/clutter slows us down to our links which makes it difficult to find useful links when adding links. That being said, there are times when we might want to group some things. In these cases, use tags or folders.
Creating points of connection
It's clear that we shouldn't use links to group things together, but how do we create connections? Find the single idea behind what you're writing and create an notes/atomic things are self-contained link. These are powerful because they are notes/interoperable components are efficient. If you're unsure of how to do this, you'll see that examples of links scattered throughout this blog post. Feel free to click around and "notes/following a train of thought".
How Fleeting Notes helps create useful links
Fleeting Notes is a lightweight note-taking application for capturing and connecting thoughts. I know that notes/having more connections is better and the posts/writing-quick-notes-in-obsidian prevents me from creating more connections. With Fleeting Notes, I can easily create notes within my browser or phone and have them posts/sync-fleeting-notes-with-obsidian.