Zettelkasten Template for Tana Members Only Area
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I've been taking notes digitally since July 20, 2008. Counting up everything I can find these days I have made at least 100,000 notes across 3-4 systems. My first note that July was in Evernote. It was a snapshot of a magazine article I tagged as research about the surging demand for network bandwidth.
It was not until I began to use RoamResearch in September of 2020 that things really changed for me. The power of the graph model with two way links was just mind blowing! As a began to connect my notes in new ways, like leveraging the Zettelkasten method, my notes seemed to come alive. They have became something I wanted to spend time with; and would sometimes even feel resentful when I could not give it enough time. Then, I relaxed a bit more and just went with the flow. Because, ultimately, that's what it's all about. The beautiful complexity that emerges in a well connected note taking system of models is like wonderful.
Years of experimentation and countless hours of trial and error to come up with the system in this template for Zettelkasten. This Tana Digital Zettelkasten's ancestor was created in RoamResearch. It was (and still is being) painstakingly migrated to Tana (there's not a great shortcut sadly). But, doing so, gave me a chance to really rethink it from the ground up and to do something I had been wanting to do for a long time; integrate the Discourse research model from Joel Chan Learning Zettelkasten and creating a digital version has been life changing for me.
This work has improved the quality and depth of my thinking tremendously. I owe a thank you to Bo Hahn for a lot of the inspiration for my original ZK in Roam Research. That took me very far. And, of course to Niklas Luhmann for perfecting the Zettelkasten system.
This Digital Zettelkasten template is a well documented knowledge management structure that I use to organize my information consumption and production effectively.
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Digital Zettelkasten Template for Tana
Digital Zettelkasten Template for Tana
This template for Tana took months to create and test. It took years of daily use and experimentation to develop the system overall. The system it implements is one of the most powerful learning and knowledge hacks ANYWHERE!
After that time of reading, learning, testing, trial, error, late nights, and weekends. Consuming countless hours of YouTube videos, book clubs, books, articles, tried every similar system I could find. My explorations have yielded the Digital Zettelkasten for Tana!
You don't have to do all that to get the benefits. It has now been done for you!
When Tana came into the market, my plans for an incredibly powerful digital zettelkasten note-taking and research system came together beautifully. I had created my own forms of this in other tools already. But they never quite came together as cleanly as I wanted. I was skeptical that a new tool like Tana could change things. But, wow! It did!
To say I am excited about this would be a massive understatement! This note-taking system is one of my favorite ways to spend time thinking, learning, and creating the basis for nearly infinite content creation. That last one is a biggie.
My Digital Zettelkasten is the primary source for writing, making videos, recording podcasts, and with the advent of generative AI, making art.
A DIGITAL ZETTELKASTEN IS A SUPERPOWER!
Recently, Tana made my dreams come true with the release of their
✨️✨️ Artificial Intelligence features✨️✨️
I had been trying to develop an elegant way to what is now built into the template in various note-taking systems for some time. In Tana, it all came together very quickly with the new AI Commands.
Two commands have been embedded to start. I have no doubt I'll be adding more in time.
Tana AI Commands
✨️ Generate Relevant Questions with AI ✨️
✨️ Generate Index Term Definitions with AI✨️
Index Terms are the heart of the navigation system. They are adapted from the original concept of the index in Luhman's Zettelkasten. But, with the digital version they take a much more central role over time.
This command uses multiple parts of the permanent notes to help create index term definitions! This particular feature is, dare I say it, almost magical and it alleviates a piece of work that was a bit of chore before but without taking anything at all away from the human thinking process. It's made from YOUR notes.
Main Features
Dynamic Digital Zettelkasten Search Node
Artificial Intelligence (Definitions and Terms)
Linkable Permanent Notes
Integrated Research Fields and Helpers
Autotagging
Terms, Questions, and Claims Search Nodes
Many Videos for How to Do Things and more to come
and more…
