Index Cards for More than Antinet Zettelkasten - The Power of Shuffling

[@eafarr]

I have just started to use index cards for everything! Thanks for sharing your systems- this gives me ideas for organizing them as they pile up.

[@JH-pe3ro]

I have started using index cards for comics-making recently. I haven't gone as intensely into the writing process(yet) since I'm just doing short stories of a few pages, but I find them useful for building up the visual elements needed to finish an illustration, because a lot of what a comic panel needs to feel complete is a few fragments of visual inspiration - character, pose, setting. Those are things that, to stylize them and bring them into the story, just need a few minutes spent sketching them at thumbnail size. Then I can throw them into the scanner and have a lot of material to build the finished page over digitally. The ruled side of the card lets me jot down any notes I need and make sense of what the drawing is supposed to do. I store them with a binder clip in a vinyl zipper bag, which goes in my inside vest pocket along with some drawing supplies. This is "just enough" organization to let me take them out to a library or cafe, review the status of my layouts on my phone and decide what I want to tackle next, or redo cards that didn't turn out.

[@juliedrakeArtist]

I like the name ‘Clog’ for your fourth box. That’s what I read on the label!

[@freddodentro]

Lovely organisation of thinking

[@pinkpanther3140]

Great video! Very interesting insights and ideas you present here. Gave me a lot to think about...

[@markgreen4763]

Maybe, someday, you will find a connection between something that you need to remember, and something a character in your novel needs to remember.

[@tdb65]

What was the name of the stash wallet. Was is Bullin? could you post a link.

[@StellasVegetablegardens]

Where do you get the boxes from please? Do you have e a link

[@oz_jones]

They seem to be Globe-Weis/Pendaflex Fiberboard index card storage boxes, available from Amazon. I dont know if I'm able to post a link, but searching should yield results.

[@LyGamezz]

Interested on how you work on your novel, using the cards. I am interested in doing that for my novel

[@ZKblah]

Great video idea.

[@pinkpanther3140]

@@ZKblah I agree!

[@emotionalmindedstate]

Example. You have a 10000 notes Zettelkasten. And you decide to let me use it. I have ONE idea and ONE note to put it in to your Zettelkasten. I have no idea what your Zettelkasten is about and which notes it contains. I do not know any relations existing between notes. I have no idea about the context surrounding each of your notes. Just BLANK MIND. How do i put my note in your Zettelkasten so it will be mindfully connected to as much of your existing notes as it can be? Please describe a step by step process of my interaction with your's Zettelkasten.

[@koshisugawara5853]

The Haruki one is actually a genius idea for people who want to write sth like a novel where there is a story. It's like collecting ideas for your book from real life 🤌🏻. This is the first time i hear someone mention such thing and I'll def start using that, thank you. (PS: It's kinda sad that you didn't name one of the siblings Mycroft 😂)