![]() ![]() NVALT HACK FULLIf I needed an overview over all the Zettels on a book I did a full text search for its “cite key”. My former method consisted of creating new notes sequential. Hack the book into pieces but keep a manualĪfter I finished a book I go through all of my reading annotations (which are super minimal at this time) and make Zettel out of them. I made the experience that it increases my output of Zettel. ![]() ![]() It is quite specific to nvALT but can surely be adopted within a wide range of other apps. I have one particular tool that I want to present you. I count all Zettel and not quality Zettel only. Because I misjudge I don’t have any metric for quality output but only for output in general. Sometimes, I think that something is profound and it turns into a lame loser idea and other times I come back to a previously thought boring piece and my mind explodes in a burst of creativity. I write something that is a center piece of a new article, book, model, or theory and I know it from the beginning of the first sentence. Sometimes, it is pretty clear that I write something with very little relevance for anything. I cannot distinguish between higher quality and lower quality notes at the time I write them. However, some structures turned out to be useful because of measurable improvement of my knowledge work. It improved neither did the speed of knowledge acquisition nor its depth. This didn’t result in any additional productivity or creativity. A note was a clickable point in a net and I could see all the connections, hierarchies and what not else. I had an app, can’t recall its name, that basically simulated the view of a neuronal net. I still see some danger in having a fetish for nice pictures and graphs. An overview is tolerable as long as it is a means to accelerate and deepen your knowledge work. Over time, I acknowledged that I threw the baby out with the bathwater. Making peace with an ex-girlfriend that is not as crazy as initially thought Dog by Activedia, License: CC0 Public Domain I avoided them like a crazy ex-girlfriend who mistakes getting into a fight for having a relationship. This happened with techniques to increase overview. Old friends turned enemies are the most ferocious. With the plain text approach I learned from him I gave up on some features for the benefit of having the freedom of simplicity. I was trapped with a non-functional but pressing need for an overview until I met Christian. I avoid this problem like a beastly ex-girlfriend. It is the classical problem of multi-tasking. While juggling two objects is a pretty simple feat in the real world, mental juggling slows you down. If you want an overview of the context of information and knowledge while you explore the potential of the piece of knowledge itself, you have two balls in the air. How does this need harm your knowledge work? It forces you to juggle two mental states. The goal of this blog post is to provide a solution for investing just enough effort into generating overview to optimize your knowledge work without consuming too much energy for actions that don’t translate into productivity and creativity in an optimal way. The less overview you have the more trust you need in you method because you have less insight into the process of your knowledge machinery. However, not having an overview at all can be hard. NVALT HACK ARCHIVEIf the need of generating overview for your knowledge archive becomes self-selective, it becomes non-functional and is cancerous to your knowledge system we call a Zettelkasten. The need for a reasonable amount of overview can become a fetish which not only is not only unnecessary but even harmful for your productivity and creativity. The reason for that is the self-selective nature of the need for an overview. I am a huge proponent of not having any overview. ![]()
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