notebox

Zettelkasten Compass

This is a technique to systematically come up with plausible links to other ideas or forming new ideas while using the Zettelkasten Method.

Given a note, think about the four cardinal directions:

• North - think about where the idea comes from
• West - think about what idea is most similar
• East - think about what idea is the opposite of this idea
• South - what’s next, what can be built on top of this idea

                    North
                (Where from)
                     /|\
                      |
  West   <----------Idea----------->   East
(Similar)             |             (Opposite)
                     \|/
                    South
                  (Where to)

Reference

• Vicky Zhao [BEEAMP], How To Take Smart Notes (3 methods no one’s talking about), Youtube

This site is open source. Improve this page.