Thank you for sharing this. I have been fascinated by the idea of Zettelkasten for quite some time and read a lot of blogs, but I am yet to find a resource which explains it well how to organize/store/categories the notes well. The core concept of how to take notes with a that system is well documented but organizing them is not really well discussed anywhere. Hope the video you shared answers that well.

I currently in the battle of using OneNote and a notebook because of that. I often want to quickly just note things down as writing really helps me with retention but I find it really difficult to find it when I need it so I end up transferring important notes every few weeks in my OneNote notebooks with the system based on Zettelkasten.

The digital solution oblivion notes looks interesting but I feel currently OneNote provides the same freedom to organize in any chaotic method you want.

Let me know if that video helps. There are other videos in the channel as well. However the one I linked is a good starting point.

This was a good video, a new variation of what I knew about slip card/note system.

Just like the video, my notebook is like the staging card for me. I jot down stuff in all orientations of the page if required and eventually transfer it to OneNote as my Knowledge card. I do not add information like numbers or page numbers or links or timestamps, the only thing I use is date and topic name.

Furthermore, I will look into that channel more as this video still did not help me much as this also has the same issue as I always had with zettelkasten, it is highly resourceful for research and only research who are zoned into one major topic because I read in various topics and categorizing the cards numerically based on how they link each other is very difficult to be done in analog form as I am not sure if I find the link easily for a topic that I have 50 pages of notes, which I have read few months ago to which I just want to add this new note to. I have to re-read some of it again to file this new note properly. Which is why it gets easy to do it in OneNote for me.

Or maybe this is the point of an analog system which I up until now failed to understand, to help retain/refresh notes far too often and retain information better, is that it?

I have read about Ryan Holiday's system and I think mine is very close to his, but just very digital. Which is quite unfortunate because just like most people, I can easily recollect which page which note is on in a book which I have read or written.

Thanks again for the video, and feel free to enlighten me with the shortcomings you see in my thought or process, even your opinions about this topic or how you see it differently than me.

> Or maybe this is the point of an analog system which I up until now failed to understand, to help retain/refresh notes far too often and retain information better, is that it?

Yes that's one of the benefits. Analog forces maintenance rehearsal in human memory. It also does this when you're in a state of associating an idea you have in your head with the most similar and related idea. This excercises the neuro-associative recall muscle in the mind and creates what Luhmann calls surprises and accidents which are very useful during the process of creating.

You end up reviewing notes using analog systems that you may not have otherwise reviewed. These events reignite reverberation of ideas that you can then carry with you for days (or at least during the process of writing and creating).