zettel name length is not important
some times zettel’s title/name could be quite long when concepts involved have long names, like “general purpose actuator” or “developmental robotics” or “constructivisit epistemology”. (or when those 3 used in the same sentence).
It could be concerning as it may imply voilation of atomicity, if the long name is due to appearance of many concepts, and perhaps multiple relationship. But as long as atomicity is not broken, the character length should not be a problem. Example be most of Luhmann’s zettels do not even have title(so the content is title; super long for title), and they worked superbly.
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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: