Master a Zettelkasten Note-Taking Workflow in Notion from Scratch

[@Martin_Adams]

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[@jovialhazel]

This is IT!! I’ve searched for how to start Zettlekasten on Notion so hard until I see this video, you just simply explained everything I need to know how to start! Thank you so much for this GREAT Video

[@asteroidea.technophile]

Thank you so much for your logical and simple introduction. I just started both Zettelkasten and Notion. Your video hit two birds in one for me. You saved me a lot of time and gave me a great boost for my start.

[@NnennaReads]

What an amazing video. This is exactly what I was looking for. I could not quite figure out how to make the Zettelkasten system work for me, but this video really helped me understand how I can personalize it. Thanks so much!

[@simonkeyland8988]

I've watched numerous videos on creating a Zettelkasten in Notion, and this is the best one by far. Great content Martin.

[@Martin_Adams]

Thank you so much for your kind words 🙏

[@thedebuglife]

You rock! Of course this is the first video I opened when searching for "notion zettelkasten" :)

[@fabiem]

Thank you for this video. I have long been searching for a video with an efficient method with notion

[@shirleymoon9934]

Thank you for sharing! The question view could really help me in reflecting

[@SeanghortBorn]

It is a bit long video, but so helpful. Step by step and clear explanation, with a good practical sample. Thank you Martin.

[@kasperkorea]

I really appreciate your videos. Your pace, articulation and relevance is great. Much helpful and insightful.

[@paulstanley8088]

I have about 4,000 notes I imported into Notion from Evernote. I will be interested to see if I can start organizing them using this method. I'm concerned that Notion's global search does NOT search inside databases (at least I don't think it does), so either all notes go into the database so you can use the database search, or nothing. I'm also a little concerned that notes will get list, but the "Ready to Process" and the "Question" tags are pretty genius! I find that in researching Issue A, questions about currently irrelevant Issue B & C pop into my head. If these questions are not written down at that moment, they are "lost" until the right context comes up again.

[@cstan1517]

Thanks a million, Martin for teaching me how to take the first step right!

[@wflack]

This is really helpful.Thank you. I have watched this twice so far

[@productivity6693]

Great content as always Martin. Zettelkasten is really hard to grasp at first because it is so abstract and we are used to all kinds of structure. Your explanations and workflow examples really help clarify it. Also tech joke here, most Zettelkasten Notes are very SOLID (Every note should have a Single Responsibility (idea/topic), should be open for extension but closed for modification (linking to other notes, even though the closed part isn't really appropriate here.) And maybe the Interfaces can be the maps of content xD

[@Martin_Adams]

Thank you! I appreciate your kind words. Also, as a techie, I love your SOLID take on it. Makes a lot of sense and is a great insight. Maybe somewhere at the core of it, the idea of a piece of knowledge that has utility in understanding isn’t so different from a piece of isolated software that utility and meaning within a larger context.

[@Daithai96]

Excellent video. Thank you for posting this, extremely helpful

[@amarnaik2083]

Hey Martin! Amar here from India Excellent Video on building zettelkasten in Notion. I am very much interested in understanding the details of how to import information from a book/ article and converting into information in a systematic manner. Also, the book "How to take smart notes" is mainly influenced by zettelkasten but not really the original zettelkasten. Do check Niklas Luhmann's note "Communicating with slip boxes" for a far deeper understanding of the same. Kudos to you again!

[@Martin_Adams]

Thank you. Great suggestion. In my own book Atomic Note-Taking I took a more practical and goal driven approach with teaching the Zettelkasten, and there is a lot of focus on how to ask questions and generate new insights from your notes.

[@JamesYibokou]

I love this. Simple and clear... Thanks Man

[@MoMo-iz4gn]

This is the best Zettelkasten notion template. Thank you so much.

[@simplyroger2763]

GREAT video Martin, thank you and keep up the good work!

[@Martin_Adams]

Thank you 🙏

[@hindjoy]

Amazing video! Thanks for explaining so clearly :)

[@xinyi_yap]

I love this digital version of the Zettelkasten! What I'd love is for the Map of Content to be an automated process rather than something I have to manually add. Wonder if tags would work.. 🤔

[@master_from_gallifrey]

You can filter by specific tag and if you've tagged everything properly you will end up with list of all the notes for specific topic. Or even further filter by tag + filter by note type (permanent notes) will give shorter list. ✌️😌

[@illuminach8279]

Great content! Thanks for this

[@albertkoz]

I just started watching, but it's very informative. I like the way you explain!

[@Martin_Adams]

Thanks Albert!

[@mayscheffer]

Love it! I'm struggling to create a setup that works for me related to interests and things I read and this is going to be really helpful

[@sandeeproy6564]

Good job Martin.

[@VeronicaStraightLingo]

This has been SUPER helpful!! Thank you!

[@Fclwilson]

Thanks! This is a great tutorial. This Boomer now has a digital Zettelkasten.

[@Martin_Adams]

Haha, amazing! 🤩

[@wshuyi]

I like this video very much. Thanks for the great content! Just curious, what kind of software did you use to record the screen? Did you record the screen and yourself separately? Thanks :)

[@Martin_Adams]

Thank you! I used QuickTime on the Mac to record. I first recorded my screen by dragging out a 1920x1080 area, and off to the side was a separate movie recording of the webcam. Both merged in together using Premiere. My video has a green screen which I edited out. Only downside, QuickTime stopped the video after about 10 minutes, so you’ll see my fade out and back in at some point of the video 😂

[@wshuyi]

@@Martin_Adams Thanks a lot for your reply. It's quite helpful :)

[@andrewchen7710]

Hey Shuyi and Martin, OBS obsproject.com/ might be of interest to you both! You can record many screens and apply background removal with some additional plugins all in one recording session: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmicaYSYoryjZpo

[@wshuyi]

@@andrewchen7710 Thank you so much for the information, Andrew!

[@Martin_Adams]

Thanks Andrew, I use that for other videos but you can’t record the webcam and desktop as separate files. This meant I couldn’t zoom in the screen without zooming me in the edit. But it’s a great suggestion and my favourite way to record!

[@pedrogsribeiro]

Can this method keep track of the parent and child zettels like Luhmen's? Can you draw any graphs with links? How can you view the connections in a higher level?

[@Martin_Adams]

This might be where you hit some of the limits in Notion. You can keep track of parent/child via relation props, but there’s no simple way to visualise that. That’s where apps like Obsidian shine with their graph view.

[@LorettaBangBang]

Loved the video!

[@codaliber1751]

Incredible video!

[@jonbialis3590]

Thanks this is great! Do you have this template available somewhere?

[@Martin_Adams]

Yes, I've made it public and linked it here: go.meda.io/notion-zettelkasten-template

[@jonbialis3590]

@@Martin_Adams thank you!!

[@ctw-home]

Hi Martin, thaks for your videos, why would you make a video about notion if you are building your own app? the same goes with Obsidian, thanks

[@Martin_Adams]

The selfish answer is, if I didn’t, nobody would discover my app. The second part to the answer is that I solve sharing back knowledge and if I can help someone use any app and improve, I take that as a win. Both the app and the channel are components of my long term goal of helping a new generation of people find happiness and do amazing things through knowledge and mindset.

[@ctw-home]

@@Martin_Adams very clearn and honest! and I guess you also do a great research don't he apps to explain them, so you can get all that knowledge and combine the best features to develop them in you app!

[@kadekhendradarmasastrawan7694]

It's very insightful

[@gomaluku]

Thanks so much for this!!

[@cammy944]

Very good video... Thanks

[@_nithinthomas]

Just want to say a massive thanks for taking the time to upload this video. As a creator myself, having a place to link all my ideas and actually think about them while keeping it organised is no easy task. This system is working brilliantly for me 🚀

[@78anant420]

Trying having 1000+ notes with images etc and see what a stutter notion becomes

[@tracywilliams7929]

This seemed incoherent to me. The presentation would have been more focused had there been some end in mind. Luhman didn't take notes just to occupy time. He had a dissertation in mind. If this demonstration had some goal such as a blog post then everything would have hung together better. Otherwise each step just seemed pointless. I guess what is missing is the "why?" Why this note-taking method better? What is to be gained? Why does it work so well? No one, including Luhman, has explained it well.

[@Martin_Adams]

Thank you for the great feedback. I'm about to launch a book on the Zettelkasten method which I think answers the 'why' question. It doesn't go into the various ways to use different software packages, but should make the goals very clear, which as you say is not clear in this video.

[@YlmazDALKIRANscallion]

Why don't you use Obsidian? It's better than Notion.

[@Martin_Adams]

I do, and it’s great! Obsidian isn’t for everyone though and my goal is to help those who know and love Notion to be thinking about Zettelkasten workflows with the tools they are familiar with.

[@78anant420]

This is too much work. Workflowy is so much more intuitive for zettlekasten

[@user-wv1mf6jx6z]

This iS SUXX!🤦‍♂