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My five-level PKM system for maturing ideas.
I had to put aside Zettelkasten and set up my own framework.
When I discovered the Zettelkasten method, I felt that I had found a powerful tool to organize my ideas and thoughts.
I was impressed by its logic, its structure and the way it allows to build knowledge from small notes connected to each other.
I adopted it almost immediately, convinced that it could transform the way I learned, reflected and generated new knowledge.
I took my Obsidian vault and created 3 simple templates for it.
So currently all my notes (over 4100 files spread over 300+ folders) use one of those 3 formats: Fleeting, Literature or Permanent.
However, over time, I started to notice that I found the system a bit too rigid for my workflow and my thinking. This rigidity, coupled with following certain adopted principles rather than my own, began to make the process feel cumbersome and slow.
What had initially excited me, now felt like a barrier to the fluidity of my thinking.
I took a step back.
I rethought my way of working with knowledge, with my Obsidian vaults and with the Zettelkasten method itself, thus taking its fundamentals…
