I am not suggesting that the version of the Zettelkasten Method presented here is the best of the best for everyone unmodified. You should also take this to heart when learning Zettelkasten Method. In all domains that place a lot of emphasis on learning skills, such as martial arts, crafts, and music, the beginning phase consists of repeating only what you have been shown. In the beginning, you need a foundation, and you cannot lay it yourself. (.)Įverything you practice, you should first practice as you have learned in this book. It is crucial that thoughts can flow freely in three areas. After all, we don't lose ourselves in the other person, but together with our counterpart we become part of a larger whole and lose, for a little while at least, the feeling of being alone. We forget ourselves, get completely into the conversation. If we are engaged and animated way, we feel it very clearly. It has its own demands, requires people to nurture it, feeds people with new thoughts, and in turn wants people to feed it with new thoughts. It is as if there is a common thing that arises between these two people. In a good and animated conversation, a kind of third thing emerges that is independent of the individual people. A conversation is not just an exchange of information. But this does not do justice to the character of a good conversation. We can understand this conversation as communication between two completely separate people. Thinking this way, we can rephrase many questions as follows: What can we do now to make our future self do what it is supposed to do?Ĭompare it (the interaction with your Zettelkasten) with a conversation. So we can see immediately: It is in our interest as well as in the interest of our future self that we work thoroughly. We ourselves, of course, wish that this prospective book author, our future self, will work effectively, that he would not have to deal with sloppiness from bis past self (that's us). He wishes the note to be finished writing. This budding book author probably wishes that the notes he encounters were already reasonably error-free, written in an understandable way, and usable for the book without requiring much further revision. So if we maintain a note in our note box, we should ask ourselves the following question: What do we want our future selves to do when they encounter this piece of paper?Įxample: If we are working on a book project, our future self is an budding book author. After all, we are not who we will become. This future self is a different person from us. Technically, we are doing it for another person, namely our future self. When we add notes to our Zettelkasten, we are not doing it for ourselves. There’s no good reason not to try out FoldingText.Ĭons: FoldingText is still in development, so it’s only begun to scratch the surface of what it can do.Exzerpt from the book Write for Your Future Self
#Foldingtext ios software#
FoldingText is a lightweight productivity software that is free to download and use. Journalists will find it useful for organizing an article.
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Writers may also find it useful for organize a short story, novel, or a chapter of a non-fiction book.
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Further, students can use it to organize or take notes in class and it will help them organize their thoughts. The timer function is perfect for those who are using FoldingText to cook or bake. It’s remarkably intuitive to use and allows some fairly complex functionality without requiring any sort of a learning curve.įor those interested in making a todo list, for instance, FoldingText provides a very simple markup to do that: It’s a new program, but the developer seems enthusiastic about adding more features down the road. For those that are looking for a simple productivity tool to help them with simple tasks or organize their thoughts, FoldingText has a nice suite of functions and promises to include more in future builds. Overall Opinion: FoldingText is pretty cool.