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From Fleeting Notes to Project Notes – Concepts of "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sönke Ahrens • Zettelkasten Method

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This is a guest post by our dear @ZettelDistraction. You can find his sketches and some (academia-)critical illustrations on Instagram @flengyel. And if you’re interested in seeing how a text evolves, check out the revisions of this post on the forums. Terminological troubles beset the account of note categories in How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens (Ahrens 2017). The book reads as though it emerged unedited from the author’s Zettelkasten. The most important type of note doesn’t have a name. This post aims to settle the record. Ahrens discusses five categories of notes: three main descriptive categories of notes: fleeting notes, permanent notes and project notes; and two subcategories of permanent notes, literature notes and Zettels, although the term Zettel occurs nowhere in Ahrens (Ahrens, 41). Italicized terms are defined in “Note categories in detail” below, after some remarks on the components of a Zettekasten and on workflow in the Zettelkasten Method according to Ahrens. A

This is a guest post by our dear @ZettelDistraction. You can find his sketches and some (academia-)critical illustrations on Instagram @flengyel . And if you’re interested in seeing how a text evolves, check out the revisions of this post on the forums. Terminological troubles beset the account of note categories in How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens (Ahrens 2017). The book reads as though it emerged unedited from the author’s Zettelkasten. The most important type of note doesn’t have a name. This post aims to settle the record. Note categories named and unnamed Ahrens discusses five cate

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