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A reply to @joel post 'The urge to write more'

#blogging #writing #zettelkasten #notes #pkm #obsidian #blog #plaintext

https://lazybea.rs/re-the-urge-to-write-more

A reply to @joel post 'The urge to write more'

#blogging #writing #zettelkasten #notes #pkm #obsidian #blog #plaintext

https://lazybea.rs/re-the-urge-to-write-more

Sasu reviewed A System for Writing by Bob Doto

Bob Doto: A System for Writing (Paperback, New Old Traditions)

THIS BOOK IS FOR WRITERS who want to write more, who struggle to write, who …

A Practical Zettelkasten Primer with Writing Advice

5 stars

I've been trying to get started with a #Zettelkasten for the better part of two years, if not longer. I've read one or two other books on the subject, notably How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens, poked around in forums, did some trial and error, and had a clunky, barely functional system. I'm pretty sure that I heard about A System for Writing through someone posting about it on the Fediverse and I'm so glad. Building on the felicitous recommendation of whoever that was, I'd like to take this opportunity to heartily recommend this book by @bobdoto@pkm.social to anyone who, like me, is or has been floundering trying to figure out how to make a working Zettelkasten which they can actually use.

Here's what I found so helpful about the book:

It's organized really well and is easy to dip back into for reference …

I've been trying to get started with a #Zettelkasten for the better part of two years, if not longer. I've read one or two other books on the subject, notably How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens, poked around in forums, did some trial and error, and had a clunky, barely functional system. I'm pretty sure that I heard about A System for Writing through someone posting about it on the Fediverse and I'm so glad. Building on the felicitous recommendation of whoever that was, I'd like to take this opportunity to heartily recommend this book by @bobdoto@pkm.social to anyone who, like me, is or has been floundering trying to figure out how to make a working Zettelkasten which they can actually use.

Here's what I found so helpful about the book:

It's organized really well and is easy to dip back into for reference or reassurance.
There are eminently practical lists of what to do, what to remember, and what to watch out for at the end of each section.
His interpretation of the #ZK system is flexible and adaptable to the resources and knowhow one already has. Everything (including reference notes!) can be done on paper, or in one app, or in many, or in another way, depending on one's preferences and needs.
He explains himself and gives examples which are themselves instructive.
He clearly calls out his sources and provides detailed endnotes for anyone who wants to dig deeper.
He gives solid writing advice.

I could probably go on but let me stop here and summarize by stating that the book seems to have every building block I would have needed to get started and then some. My Zettelkasten is still a work in progress, but it's now in a much more usable state thanks to Bob's advice.

Thanks so much for writing the book!

#Zettelkästen #slipbox #slipboxes #notes #notetaking #writing #BobDoto #ASystemforWriting #SystemforWriting #sourcenote #sourcenotes #referencenote #referencenotes #references #pkm

Sasu replied to Sasu's status

Can't publish my review for some reason, but will keep trying sporadically until it works or until it seems pointless, whichever comes first. Highly recommended for anyone needing support starting on the #Zettelkasten method.

bm IS MOVING

Oh boy. Got access to the REAL reading list today. It is *not* this, which I've linked to in previous Brologue posts:

https://libguides.st-andrews.ac.uk/creativewriting

The REAL reading list has only one of these books in common, and is ~50 books strong. On a one-year postgrad.

My only thought right now is that my #zettelkasten and blog are going to be put to the test for real. Oy...

Oh boy. Got access to the REAL reading list today. It is *not* this, which I've linked to in previous Brologue posts:

https://libguides.st-andrews.ac.uk/creativewriting

The REAL reading list has only one of these books in common, and is ~50 books strong. On a one-year postgrad.

My only thought right now is that my #zettelkasten and blog are going to be put to the test for real. Oy...

bm IS MOVING replied to bm IS MOVING's status

Content warning thread 4/

I started blogging six months ago for a couple of reasons. First, I wanted to write for an audience. I've been writing my whole life, but I've only been a public writer for six months. It's easier to pretend someone's reading when your work's public online. My #Zettelkasten has become a foundry for post ideas, and when those posts are put on Brologue, I can reuse or revisit those ideas, recycling my previous work:

https://brologue.net/2023/11/04/zettelkasten-an-antidote-for-boring-notes

A One Paragraph Summary of Sönke Ahrens' How to Take Smart notes from 1775-76

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's note taking description is very close to modern excerpting and #zettelkasten practices.
#PKM
https://boffosocko.com/2023/09/24/lichtenberg-on-note-taking/

A quote card from Lichtenberg's notebook E that reads: "Merchants and traders have a waste book (Sudelbuch, Klitterbuch in German I believe) in which they enter daily everything they purchase and sell, messily, without order. From this, it is transferred to their journal, where everything appears more systematic, and finally to a ledger, in double entry after the Italian manner of bookkeeping, where one settles accounts with each man, once as debtor and then as creditor. This deserves to be imitated by scholars. First it should be entered in a book in which I record everything as I see it or as it is given to me in my thoughts; then it may be entered in another book in which the material is more separated and ordered, and the ledger might then contain, in an ordered expression, the connection sand explanations of the material that flow from it. [46]"

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