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#Smart notes software archive#

Archive - looks great, no vendor lock-in, but not open-source and it is macOS only.

Link from first note to second note by typing [[ in the first note and using auto-complete.

Create a new note ( CMD+ N), add name the generated ID (e.g.

#Smart notes software install#

Download and install Zettlr (on Mac brew cask install Zettlr).It’s the only app you need, you can migrate to other apps later if you decide to.

#Smart notes software free#

It’s Free and Open-Source, uses Markdown files and it’s vendor agnostic. This is the part that took me a long time to research.

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Better would be #"power dynamics in groups" #"misuse of power" The software Using tags like #psychology #experiment is hardly going to aid you in finding this note when you are writing or thinking about a problem. These files need to have a unique identifier so other notes can link to them unambiguously.Ī - "]" -> B 4) tag permanent notesĪdvice #3: Tag the notes by the context you would like to retrieve it byĮxample: You have a note on Stanford prison experiment 3. Permanent notes are just markdown files in a separate folder. You try to turn you reference notes into permanent notes whilst avoiding conflict of concepts and duplication, these problems show the clearest when you think “How am I going to link this note to the other of my slip-box notes?”

concise: few paragraphs maximum, restricting the size helps you get the gist and keep the note atomic.

permanent: you are never going to delete the note, it might just fade into the background if there aren’t many links to it.

self-contained: you will forget the context in a few weeks, the note needs to explain itself in separation from the fleeting context.

atomic: always focused on a single topic, that makes linking notes easier.

The main unit of information within the method is a permanent note. Remember, the purpose of slip-box is to aid your future self to make use of the notes for writing. 2) write atomic, self-contained, permanent notes The file content format is arbitrary, I choose to use Frontmatter for the metadata, but it’s not that important. Fleeting notes - they are supposed to capture an idea for a brief period before it is processed, 1 or 2 days max (p43) We double-check this understanding when we try to make permanent notes out of the literary notes. **Short feedback loop** - Writing literary notes provides quick feedback on our understanding of the text.

#Smart notes software how to#

Title: How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers But I recommend having them as Markdown files in a Resources folder You can use a separate app like Zotero for these notes. Writing resource notes is where you get the first feedback from the method: Are you paying attention and do you understand the text? At this step, you are not trying to predict how your notes are going to fit in the slip-box, you are just trying to capture the essence of the text. Copying doesn’t give you feedback on your understanding. You fill your slip-box with notes by following this process: 1) make notes as you readĪdvice #2: Always use your own words. You write notes with a clear purpose: your future self is going to be reorganizing them and using them to produce articles or books. The source for the method summary is Sönke Ahrens’ book How to Take Smart Notes. Read this article, use it to create your first couple hundred notes and then research more details if you feel like your current process should be improved. The advanced practices are useful only when you’ve got close to 1000 notes 2.Īs with everything else you want to utilize iteration. This method also gives you better and quicker feedback than usual note-taking.Īdvice #1: Don’t try to get this method perfect from the get go 1. Instead, using this method will improve the value of your notes as you create more of them.

Slip-box method promises to prevent your notes from piling up deep within your note-taking app and being forgotten.

This article should be enough of the introduction to get you started. Don’t go down the same rabbit hole as I did, researching the method for tens of hours. Zettelkasten aka slip-box note-taking is the new cool kid on the block. Update: I wrote an article about what I’ve learned from using Zettelkasten for 16 months, you might be interested in reading it.