A Zettelkasten should:
- … clarify ideas and thoughts
- … bring structure into ones own thinking, see Schreiben ist Denken
- … help to prioritize and evaluate ideas and thoughts
- … be a tool
Zettelkasten should NOT:
- … collect information instead of thought. I.e. the content should come from one self and should not be copy-pasted by some other source.
- … bring technical issues that are distracting
- … be a philosophical thing that requires a lot of cognitive resources