Tana Zettelkasten Template

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.

MORE DATA? Here's my YouTube Playlist with several videos how how this all works:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDiH5ebrzDYmboqNh3I3lM1zIzyKpIDF

MOOOORE? Here is a live note taking session using the tempate
https://www.youtube.com/live/cJXLtIKSib4?si=QG9MSjQgCeYWjo50

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.