"It is requisite that a man should arrange the things he wishes to remember in a certain order, so that from one he may come to another: for order is a kind of chain for memory" – Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae. Not ironically I found the passage in my Zettelkasten.

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mmargenot 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's weird to read this from zettelkasten.de, given that the method is precisely about cultivating such a graph of knowledge. "Knowing enough to begin" seems to me to be the express purpose of writing and maintaining a zettelkasten and other such tools.

	▲	skydhash 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I would say they mean being able to recall, not having everything at once. It’s being able to answer the 5 why’s.

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wduquette 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I arrange my code to follow a certain order, so that I can get my head back into a given module quickly. I don't remember everything; there's too much over the weeks, months, and years. But I can remember enough to find what I need to know if I structure it properly. Not unlike, you know, a Zettlekasten.

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kelvinjps10 3 days ago | parent [-]

Isn't a Zettlekasten, structured so you can easily go back to a note easily?

	▲	wduquette 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. And so's my code, so to speak.