I am an avid bullet-journaler, and while I don’t expect to try Zettelkasten, I will start using one of the methods described here to make my bullet journals easier to navigate.
Research and Writing is only half of what I use my bullet journal for, but this causes notes on the same topic to spread over many pages. If I give a number to that topic, then I will be able to continue that topic throughout my journals by just adding a “dot-number.” If page 21 is notes on formal models in business and I know that I will be making more notes on that same topic later. I can call Formal Models in Business 21.1, and the next time I broach the subject on page 33, I can label the page “Formal Models in Business 21.2″ etc. This will allow my Table of Contents to indicate related ideas.
Yeah, I think it’s actually not too bad to use Zettelkasten addresses in a fixed-page-location notebook. You can’t put the addresses in proper order, but, I’ve mentioned that I don’t sort my cards until I have a large back-log of unsorted anyway.
As I said, the creation-time ordering is pretty useful anyway, because it correlates to what you’re most likely to want to look at, whereas the proper sorting does not.
Also, looking up addresses in creation-time ordering is usually not too bad: you can still rely on 2a to be later than 2, 2b to be later than 2a, etc. You just don’t know for sure whether 3a will be on a later page than 2a.
I am an avid bullet-journaler, and while I don’t expect to try Zettelkasten, I will start using one of the methods described here to make my bullet journals easier to navigate.
Research and Writing is only half of what I use my bullet journal for, but this causes notes on the same topic to spread over many pages. If I give a number to that topic, then I will be able to continue that topic throughout my journals by just adding a “dot-number.” If page 21 is notes on formal models in business and I know that I will be making more notes on that same topic later. I can call Formal Models in Business 21.1, and the next time I broach the subject on page 33, I can label the page “Formal Models in Business 21.2″ etc. This will allow my Table of Contents to indicate related ideas.
Thanks for the elucidation!
Yeah, I think it’s actually not too bad to use Zettelkasten addresses in a fixed-page-location notebook. You can’t put the addresses in proper order, but, I’ve mentioned that I don’t sort my cards until I have a large back-log of unsorted anyway.
As I said, the creation-time ordering is pretty useful anyway, because it correlates to what you’re most likely to want to look at, whereas the proper sorting does not.
Also, looking up addresses in creation-time ordering is usually not too bad: you can still rely on 2a to be later than 2, 2b to be later than 2a, etc. You just don’t know for sure whether 3a will be on a later page than 2a.