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      <title>Getting Started with Zettelkasten</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[For a number of reasons lately, I&#39;ve been looking into the Zettelkasten method of knowledge management, which I&#39;ll talk about at length in a future post.&#xA;&#xA;One thing I want to highlight before I even get there, though, is just how daunting it is to get started.&#xA;&#xA;It&#39;s not even that the process of turning more temporary notes into your own synthesized ideas is that difficult to understand. It&#39;s that a key step in the process, linking new ideas to previous ones, is frightening when you&#39;re staring at a blank page.&#xA;&#xA;Does everything have to be bottom up from new material? I do have some ideas floating around in my head, can I scaffold those first? Do I need to flag them to come back to later?&#xA;&#xA;My inclination so far is to do the crappiest thing possible, and fix it later if I have to. Perfection in PKM is far more the problem than never creating and toying with ideas at all.&#xA;&#xA;So here&#39;s to diving into imperfection! After all, anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.&#xA;&#xA;#BASB #Zettelkasten #ToolsForThought #PKM]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For a number of reasons lately, I&#39;ve been looking into the <a href="https://zettelkasten.de/" rel="nofollow">Zettelkasten</a> method of knowledge management, which I&#39;ll talk about at length in a future post.</p>

<p>One thing I want to highlight before I even get there, though, is just how daunting it is to get started.</p>

<p>It&#39;s not even that the process of turning more temporary notes into your own synthesized ideas is that difficult to understand. It&#39;s that a key step in the process, linking new ideas to previous ones, is frightening when you&#39;re staring at a blank page.</p>

<p>Does everything have to be bottom up from new material? I do have some ideas floating around in my head, can I scaffold those first? Do I need to flag them to come back to later?</p>

<p>My inclination so far is to do the crappiest thing possible, and fix it later if I have to. Perfection in PKM is far more the problem than never creating and toying with ideas at all.</p>

<p>So here&#39;s to diving into imperfection! After all, anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.</p>

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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 02:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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