navigation zettel
Table of Contents
zettel that have lots of links. Could be specially made as entrance to ideas around a topic, like “Artificial Intelligence” to hold link to “Learning is not necessary for Artificial Intelligence”, when I have a good idea on the latter, and the former only as portal to good ideas like the latter.
This is an exception for zettel should be atomic. Clearly, “Artificial intelligence” can be split in many ways; yet this navigation is still useful
navigation zettels often falls into the following categories:
- plain navigation for browsing - index
- incidentally important concept - zettel
- in the process of decomposing a complex problem - “solving XXX with A and B” “convert XXX into YYY” “solve YYY with A to B-compatible form” until the most simple propositions.
- compilation of ideas to teach/present (draft/post of tutorial or artical) - “developmental learning tutorial 1: implementing scholarly thinking” “how one actually find out about useful knowledge from raw experience”
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zettel
basic component of zettelkasten. A zettel is formulated in the following 3 parts:
- unique ID
- used to reference a specific zettel in other zettel
- content
- an idea, a thought.
- reference
- context, or source.
A functional zettel cannot just be your whole notebook with a unique ID like “notes-in-2024”. For a zettel to be functional in a zettelkasten, it has to follow some principles:
zettelkasten and mindmap are interchangeble
zettelkasten and mindmap are structurally similar. Moreover, semantically, if a mindmap starts at a bulky concept
the intermediate nodes would be interchangeable with navigation zettel, the leaf nodes interchangeable with atomic zettels.