The Process of Making a Quality Zettel
A quality Zettel is made by capturing the core idea, expanding one layer deep into the idea with text, video, audio, adding external Zettelkasten system links, and adding a summary/excerpt to distill the idea.
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Written Idea
- Capture the Core Idea
- Expand one layer deep into the idea with text, video, audio
- Any further layers should be their own Zettel and be backlinked
- Too much energy[1] spent on depth in this step will cause overly tight ideas that can't be unpacked without a ton of context.
- Add external Zettelkasten system links. I use AI to assist me with this step. But the idea that I usually adhere to is: one obvious link, one surprising one. If you do only obvious links, you get trapped in confirmation bias.[2] If you only do surprising links, the path of reasoning becomes to difficult to follow, and the idea loses fluency.[3]
- Add a summary/excerpt to distill the idea
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