1/1/2024 0 Comments Obsidian vs zettlr![]() Easy to read - Reading experience is more important than writing because you’ll be reading the note many times in the future.Links - The tool has to support creating links between files as references to other notes.This disqualified cloud-based apps like Evernote, Notion, or even TidlyWiki. Local plain text - It had to store the notes locally in plain text (Markdown), so I can version them with git.Once I understood the Slip-box method, I had a clear idea about the requirements for the tool (ordered by priority): You can start where I finished (Logseq) and be completely content with the solution the same I am now. ![]() If you are like me, you’ll spend a lot of time looking for the perfect tool at the expense of more productive activities like reading and learning. ![]() Now let’s talk about how do I create and store my notes? I’ll walk you through the tools I tried (the cool part) and the process I use for taking my notes. Does this piece of information conflict with my previous understanding?Īnswering these questions takes a lot of time, but it pays off in the quality of your understanding and the ease of reading.How does it fit into my existing knowledge?.If the note shows not to be useful, I can delete it, or it will naturally fade into the background because it’s not densely linked to other notes.Ĭreating links between notes makes you answer two questions for each new note: I don’t have to decide which app to open to capture a thought. But now I keep all my notes in one place. I initially kept two note systems, one for the long-lasting “permanent” notes and another for the day-to-day “ephemeral” notes. Surely you want to put it in your Slip-box, but what about a shopping list? Or an idea for your new side-project? Idea from Yuval Harari’s Sapiens that Europe and Asia developed better civilisation than Americas because Americas span vertically lot of climates making it harder to share agriculture progress between different climates. Should you store a piece of information in your slip-box, or should you put it somewhere else?Į.g. You spent more time writing them because you explain the topic with low context to your future self who already forgot all about it. Optimised for reading - You spend more time writing and polishing the note because you expect to read it over and over again as opposed to the write-and-forget style.Densely-linked - When the note uses another thought or fact, you don’t repeat it but refer (link) to it.Atomic - The note contains one idea or fact, making the notes easier to link and deduplicate.I try to keep my notes about four paragraphs or less. Short - Short note is easier to read and keep it on a single topic.Slip-box consists of short, atomic, densely-linked notes optimised for reading. Writing notes this way made it impossible to reuse them when I read another book on the topic. I would write notes that adopt the book’s terminology and structure. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?īefore I learned about Slip-box, I forgot most of the information I read. The premise is that you’ll understand something once, and then you’ll always have this understanding stored in your Slip-box as a note. I got hooked on the Slip-box method because it focuses on building a long-lasting knowledge base. “Year of Slip-box” by Ljubica Petkovic Why? (the motivation) I changed my process and software, but the premise is still the same. I wrote it right after reading the How to Take Smart Notes book. ![]() 16 months ago, I wrote a popular post about Zettelkasten. Now I’ll share how my understanding of the Zettelkasten (aka Slip-box) method changed and what I’ve learned. I’ve been taking small, permanent, densely-linked notes for over a year.
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