My MOM starts her knowledge management journey!

This is probably the best, non-judgemental or holier-than-thou video on how to start a paper Zettelkasten. Morgan, thank you for what you are doing on your channel!

23:08, on labeling the first card - I'm reminded of the Umberto Eco quote (Foucault's Pendulum): "No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in have them all on file and then finding the connections; you have only to want to find them."

7:14 a cardinal tenant for managment of all stuff with ADHD is that if we don’t see it, it doesn’t exist. This is why we have piles. Physical systems tend to work better for ADHD minds. Or digital systems that present the information (like using reminders that present the steps to a routine). Additionally, we need to optimize for easy entry. If we want to retrieve something we will dig to get it out, but “putting it away” needs to be very low barriier or it just won’t happen.

If this sticks for her, I’d love to see how she adapts it to herself as a system! I know that this system isn’t traditionally used for journaling or spur of the moment, throwaway thoughts but I feel like it very easily can and if she’d like to pursue it that way, I’d love to see how it evolves. I have ADHD too and my obsidian is filled with notes that are just fully random thoughts as phrases and I go back to fill them with back links. It’s like MOCs but somehow more and less structured at the same time. I’ve loved being able to implement something in my life that is chaotic by nature but still inherently structured so I really hope your mom is able to find that kind of joy

Congratulations on a very well presented and creative video. This is original and valuable! Thanks for sharing

It's funny how your mom mentioned that her ADHD mind finds having a digital system a barrier because her laptop might be in a different part of the house but her cue cards are right there. I find that true for my ADHD in the totally opposite way. Since my phone is always on me, when I have a fleeting thought I just put it in my daily note in Obsidian there at that exact moment. If I had to find a pen and paper every time I wanted to record I thought, I would never do it. I guess it's, as she says, a generational thing.

This video is absolutely gold. I've been watching note-taking content for years (although I haven't delved deep enough to read books on Zettelkasten) but this video made me understand the system immediately and easily. Watching you teach your mother from scratch has been a very enriching experience and I think that for people like me who don't know the system perfectly, this video is the perfect example. Hopefully more videos with your mother showing how her system evolves. And I hope this video goes viral because it really deserves to be seen by a lot of people. Congratulations and thank you.

The "out-of-sight, out-of-mind" is an ADHD I can relate to. And I, too, just discovered this system and feel as if it is an answer to my organizational nightmare (the ADHD). No system has EVER worked more than several weeks because once I choose a system, and file something, the out-of-sight issue literally kicks in and I have NO IDEA where I chose to file it. I've got my materials and am looking forward to jumping in.

Hurray for late-diagnosed ADD moms!

Nice video morgan! I enjoyed watching

Thank you so much for this video! I'm your mom's age and a textbook writer who's also working on a degree. I don't trust electronic apps to stay running even for the rest of my life because I've lost so many over the years. While I understand the flexibility of a digital system, I love that zettelkasten allows the same level of searchability on paper.

This video is fantastic. It’s reminding me of a professional organizer or consultant. Great back up career might be helping people create Zettlekastens 😊

That was so cool! I faced the exact same issue than your mother after discovering your videos : i am a purely on-paper note taking because of a sight disability, and obsidian was just too hard on my eye for long periods of note taking (which is needed as i just finished my phd and am working on post doctorate projects and applications). Thanks a lot, i'll give it a try on the paper format!

So great in different ways, and very inspiring cause I just started my next attempt of building a Zettelkasten. On the one hand I love the physical thing. Perhaps it's a generation thing, but my experience ist that things I wrote by hand become much clearer and stuck more in my memory. On the other hand I don't want to do my Zettelkasten without the digital advantages. So I decided do go hybrid: I have a bunch of notecards in my pocket and whenever something comes into my mind I do my physical notes (according to my gernal standards) But the intention is to type them later in my Obsidian and get linked them to existing notes. On the other hand: when I do some online reserches, or working on my desk it fits me better do go straight into Obsidian. So there is no "either or" but something that depends on the situation.

It's so sweet how your Mum was so curious about your approach, and interested in adapting her own zettelkasten system! Great! (btw, I used to have a Zoom H4n, if you turn it 90 degrees in this scenario, you can split the audio into two mono tracks (left and right of the stereo pair) and it's like one mic per person)

Great video I appreciate the detailed explanation of the Zettelkasten method. I'm curious to know if there will be any follow-up updates or additional content on this topic. Keep up the great work!"

That couch seems really comfy!

Excellent introduction.

How is your mum doing with her system now after a couple months?

This video is wonderful! I've been trying to work in a digital Zettelkasten and even though I work on my computer all the time, I struggle with the same lack of spatial satisfaction a physical one could bring. What is a world idea? Could you explain it in a future video? Thank you and I love your work!