Zettelkasten - Understanding Effortless Numbering
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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You are most welcome. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Bob Doto teaches this numbering system in his new book. Both are good, but I tend to favour simpler systems. I wish I had started with something simpler like that; I overcomplicated my system, and sometimes, inserting new cards is a pain. I'm trying to simplify when writing new cards.
Hi Douglas! It's good to know that others are spreading the message. The beauty of effortless numbering is that you can start to use it right where you are now. 1) The new card chooses it's parent and gets the next available extension of the parent's card number. 2) Create a directory card whenever the parent card has more than one child. The second phase is the part I will review again tonight: 3) Every card must have a piece of YOU, your thought, your idea, your reaction. 4) Create a tagline at the top of the card that is NOT a title (titles are dead and fruitless), create a single line that will recall to memory the entire card you created. 5) Make an index entry for every keyword in your tagline and every such entry must contain the entire tagline.
At first, those rare long index entries will seem like a needless burden, but if you concentrate on bringing back to mind the whole card each time you write a new entry, you will have that idea circulating in your subconscious mind. Start creating more of those and your creativity will skyrocket.
@@KathleenSpracklen Thank you for your suggestions!
Hi, great video but what if a topic has more than 26 children?
E.g. I have a topic "alphabet" and the each letter of the alphabet is a child, but then I decide to add a card explaining what vowels are and want "alphabet" to be the parent card?
Probably doesn't come up that often but I'm curious about your approach...
The answer is the same as what to do if you have more than 9 starting topics. After 9 comes 10, and after Z comes AA. So if you had a card with an address like 12AB3C, you still have and if a new card chooses 12AB3C as its parent the new card would be 12AB3C-1. Having more than 26 children is rare, but having more than 9 is common, e.g. 3C14A. Does that answer your question?
@@KathleenSpracklen ok, that makes sense. I was taking "letter number" too literally. Thank you.
Hi Kathleen! I really enjoy your videos. Where did you get your 4X6 index boxes?
Thank you, the boxes are by a company called Vaultz.
@@KathleenSpracklen Thank you!