Sometimes it is convenient to refer to the slip-box as the Zettelkasten, however it is (usually) clear from context whether one means the slip-box component or all of the components. When we refer to the slip-box, we mean the corresponding software component. In software, the editor is usually combined with the slip-box function, so we refer to three components instead of four. Zettelkasten componentsĪ Zettelkasten consists of three components: a slip-box, which may be implemented in editing and note-linking software such as The Archive, Logseq, Obsidian, Roam Research, Zettel Notes, or Zettlr a reference manager, such as Zotero or Mendeley and, a pen and notebook or paper for so-called fleeting notes, to be defined (Ahrens, 29–30).Īhrens includes a fourth component, an editor (Ahrens, 30). Italicized terms are defined in “Note categories in detail” below, after some remarks on the components of a Zettekasten and on workflow in the Zettelkasten Method according to Ahrens. Note categories named and unnamedĪhrens discusses five categories of notes: three main descriptive categories of notes: fleeting notes, permanent notes and project notes and two subcategories of permanent notes, literature notes and Zettels, although the term Zettel occurs nowhere in Ahrens (Ahrens, 41). The most important type of note doesn’t have a name.
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The book reads as though it emerged unedited from the author’s Zettelkasten.
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Terminological troubles beset the account of note categories in How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens (Ahrens 2017). Zettels: a subcategory of permanent notes.Literature notes: a subcategory of permanent notes.