A System for Writing

Title:: A System for Writing: How an unconventional approach to note-making can help you capture ideas, think wildly, and write constantly.
Year:: 2024
Author:: Doto, Bob
Genre:: Non-Fiction
Rating:: 4
date created: 2024-11-25 09:50
date finished:: 2024-11-22

This is probably the best book I've read on the subject of starting and curating a zettelkasten. And it's the first book on the subject where I've actually done the practical exercises.

Highlights

We must beware of a certain craze for collecting which sometimes takes possession of those who make notes…. That is a deplorable practice. —A.G. Sertillanges, O.P., The Intellectual Life — location: [67]

Collects quote with no intention of doing anything with it as a fuck you.

The term “fleeting notes” comes from Sönke Ahrens who describes them as “reminders of information…there for capturing ideas quickly while you are busy doing something else.”10 — location: [227]

WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF ANARCHY they often envision violence and disruption. They think of chaos. But, at its heart, anarchism is less concerned with creating chaos than it is working with it. — location: [1272]

Anarchist theory is an exploration into how systems, art, relationships, and, for our purposes, ideas can leverage chaos. — location: [1275]