Unleash your musicianship by applying the Zettelkasten method to music
Zettelkasten note taking method in short
Since I’m using Obsidian as my main note talking app and for my digital garden, I discovered several ways of improving my workflows and my creativity, as well as various productivity and creativity workflows and methods.
One that held my attention is the #zettelkasten method. We owe this method to, among others, Niklas Luhmann who was a German sociologist considered as one of the most important social theorists of the 20th century.
What is impressive about Luhmann, is that he wrote more than 70 books and 400 scholarly articles on a wide variety of subjects such as sociology, art, religion, medias, love, law, politics, etc. by using the zettelkasten note-taking method.
The system consists of many atomic notes or short pieces of information written on index cards, numbered hierarchically to order it and containing metadata such as tags, stored in drawer cabinets. This kind of organization allowed Luhmann to better review notes and connect way more easily ideas together, thanks to the tag system. Luhmann had around 90,000 index cards for his research. Impressive! 🤯
