MarginNote and Zettelkasten

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:blush:Hello, mobo. Hope this can be a reference for implementing the Zettelkasten method in the Marginnote3:

Zettelkasten Method

Background

The word “Zettelkasten” is German and English is “slip-box” .
Information is available in the book How to Take Smart Notes by German author Sönke Ahrens.

PRINCIPLE:

  • Writing is not the result of thinking.
  • Writing is the process of thinking.
  • Writing begins with taking notes and organizing them, and ends with the output of text.

PROCESS:

  1. Collect your thoughts, inspirations, or thoughts from your reading and put them on a card
  2. Organizing the hierarchical structure of notes
  3. Make connections between notes
  4. Follow up by reusing your notes to output the text

Use The Zettelkasten Method in Marginnote3

Function Module

  • Create a new blank card: take temporary notes
  • Extract notes, Edit comment field: take literature notes
  • Idea-Box feature: Create a theme card box
  • Mind-Map Feature: Constructing Research Topics (organizing the hierarchy of notes)
  • Link Function: Building Research Topics (organizing links)
  • Title Link Feature: Autoprompt Association
  • Reference Card: Drafting Stage

More information about Reference card & Idea box

Organize your notes and output your articles

  1. Making temporary notes: Write down the thoughts in your head, create a new card and type in the thoughts. The purpose of these notes is to remind you of that thought.
  2. Take literature notes: If you read a book or see any information that you think will be useful or relevant to your own thoughts, use the extract feature to extract the contents of the document, then annotate the generated extract card in your own language and add it to the comment field. Marginnote3 will put these notes together with its references in the brain-map notebook.
  3. Making permanent notes: Go through the notes you made in steps 1 and 2, find the connections between them, and integrate them into structured permanent notes by merging, linking, or organizing parent child relationships.
  4. Create a theme card box: permanent notes are things that deserve to be in your card box. A card box represents a theme. You can create a new idea box, then migrate the notes in and follow these steps:
  5. Building theme: Build your topic, research questions, and so on from your notes. Mainly through the movement, the reorganization note card logical relations realizes, when organizes the note has the following matters needing attention:
  6. Organizing Hierarchy: Place the new note next to the related note as a child node;
  7. Organizing links: Add links to related notes;
  8. Autoprompt Association: To ensure that you can retrieve this note
    1. Set keywords as note titles
    2. Open title link function, Marginnote3 will recognize notes between notes or notes in the document mentioned relationship, based on the manual title automatically generated hyperlinks
  9. Write a rough draft: If you find that you need to use the same note in more than one paragraph, you can copy the note to more than one place using the reference function to facilitate the reuse of knowledge
  10. Polishing: Re-read the draft, Polish the language, and if you find any gaps in the content, go back to the step of Building theme.

Other software that follows the card-box note-taking principle

  1. Roam Research
  2. Zettlr
  3. Obsidian
  4. Other plug-in class applications include VS Code, vim, Atom, subliminext

Function Comparison

This is a table created by an enthusiastic user who gave us advice@xiamumu

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