I tried to follow the zettlekasten method with the numbering and everything. After a while I discovered I was getting too caught up in the method and not the outcome. Notes can be just as efficiently linked with tags, (wiki) links, keywords and the like. I abandoned the numbering for easier to understand note titles.
The key for me was the outcome. How would future me find this note? How does this note fit in the ‘web’ of all other notes I have? The hard, and important, part is looking at a new note and carefully considering:
- Where does it fit?
- What does it connect to?
- How will future me stumble across it?
Tags, links, summary notes, smart groups, and search give me multiple dimensions to connect and find new insights. For me, that was the point of zettlekasten. Finding unexpected connections and ideas in the future.
Now I have lit the fuse, I will quickly walk away… 