Feel free to capture anything that excites you for whatever reason.

ideas stored in a zettelkasten aren’t organized according to semantic logic.

In other words, folgezettel is not an outline.

To enhance the value of captured facts, it’s best to rephrase them in your own words.

North of Intention, Steve McCaffery states that “Problems in readership arise only from a refusal to abandon prejudicial reading habits,”27

Fleeting notes form the basis for much of what you’ll create inside your zettelkasten, though they themselves will not make it past the velvet rope. Fleeting notes live in a state of potential, waiting to be transformed into more useful “main notes,” the notes that will make up the bulk of your zettelkasten.

A zettelkasten is a practice.

In its most basic form, a main note should have at least two components: a single idea, and a link to another idea stored in your zettelkasten

Don’t become overprotective of your main notes to the point where you stop making them. A main note’s contents can be as simple as an idea and a link to other ideas. Don’t get bogged down with trying to create “perfect” main notes. Remember: an idea’s value is determined by its relationship to other ideas.