"Now on most days, I combine my reading of the morning news with active note-making. When I see a story about a breakthrough in AI, I add it to the note (or “zettel”) labeled “AGI could arrive in the next 10 years.” I may also add a few sentences of analysis at the top of the note to reflect the current state of things.
Some of these notes turn into columns. Others are useful resources for me when I return to a topic after being away from it for a few months. But in all cases, they represent an effort to map out my current thinking, support it (or challenge it) with fresh evidence, and build raw materials for reporting, analysis, and podcasting.
This specific version of Zettelkasten feels most useful to people who work with ideas: writers, students, academics, and communications executives, to name a few groups. But most knowledge workers are tracking some set of ideas over time, and for that this approach seems superior to simply taking an endless series of disposable notes with empt"
