My Zettelkasten System — Zombies and Unicorns, Oh My
I love note taking and I love the zettelkasten system. At the beginning of my journey, I was all about looking at all the videos of setting up your system. It overwhelmed me with ideas, I was always looking for the new shiny system. There is one problem with showcasing other people zettelkastens, it is their system. This is not necessarily either a good or bad problem; however, it has the potential to set up in the viewers' mind that if their system isn’t like the one they are watching — they could think that theirs isn’t good enough.
My inspirations for my current incarnation of my system are Jeffery Webber and Ev Chapman. However, after I setup my system to be a remix of the two, it wasn’t right, and I got discouraged. There was still friction. I had set up a three tier note system — meant to be for the different stages a note would go through.
For some people, this works well — for me, it was too much. Brian Jenks used this to keep track of notes. It made my head hurt. I needed to simplify it more. I needed a way to tell the difference between notes that were just dot points and ones that were written out. I also needed a way to keep track of what were my theme or keyword notes.
So, I changed all my topic and subtopic notes into one level of keyword notes. For my system, I call them Spoons. Think of…
