Zettelkasten Index - A Comprehensive Guide 

Best video ever to understand the index in a Zettelkasten. Thank you Kathleen for such a clear video!

Brilliant teaching. The system that you show in your zettelkasten somehow reflects the generous nature of the person making and sharing it.

Thank you so much for this instructive and stimulating series, Kathleen!! (Very much in the spirit of Zettelkasten, by the way, that this branch in your creative journey has taken on an increasingly complex life of its own while maintaining constant resonance with the larger gestalt of your work.) I sincerely appreciate the depth, quality and nitty-gritty detail of what you're sharing here, and the beautiful generosity of spirit that shines through it all. Here's the first question I've gotten up the courage to ask you: what are your thoughts on taking a more minimal/sparse approach to the index, at least in the very early stages of developing your Zettelkasten? I confess that while the thoroughness of your multi-keyword indexing is attractive to one part of me, another part wonders whether the keyword approach might actually fragment the focus of a more discussion-driven query about where to place the new card. (i.e., a new (as yet unnumbered) main card might best follow a card somewhere in the Zk with which it has *no common keywords* because of the way it develops the surrounding discussion that card is a part of). In other words, wouldn't just flipping through the main box with a kind of loose, intuitive awareness of discussions trigger the most appropriate/relevant (and perhaps creative/serendipitous) discussion-contributions? I see my question is itself beginning to branch out.. so in short: I wonder what insight or criticism you might offer in response to my desire for a lighter index which tracks not every keyword in every new main card, but instead tracks key discussions in the main box, with each index entry linking to cards serving as entry points to certain key ranges or moments of those discussions? Apologies for the prolixity, and many thanks to you once again. :)

Another great video! The real world examples make it so clear. My favourite part was seeing how your system evolved over time. I had resistance to starting a Zettelkasten because I feared making a mistake and needing to start over. But you showed how “old” cards using different methodologies and symbols remain useful. Awesome! I wonder what your next evolution of your Zettelkasten technique might be? Is there anything you’re tempted to tweak and see what happens?