Note Taking Method

For a while, I’d been writing short notes throughout my day—timestamps followed by whatever I was doing or thinking. Not formal journal entries. Just quick lines capturing a thought, a task, or how I was feeling at a specific moment. I started doing this when I began using Capacities, and the habit stuck. Then someone…

Zettelkasten is a smart note taking system that connects your ideas together instead of keeping them separate. Originally created by German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, this connected note-taking method helped him write over 70 books and hundreds of articles by building a network of connected notes. The word “Zettelkasten” means “slip box” in German. Luhmann used…