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Bob Doto

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UPDATE | 21 Oct, 2026 Posted an article based on research from my latest book (due out 2027, inshallah). This is from a chapter on communicating with a ...

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2026 4

  1. Understanding the Zettelkasten as an "Asymmetric" Communication Partner
  2. Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes
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  4. Serendipity and the Zettelkasten

2025 3

  1. Reading Ideas as Information: Sketches of a Theoretical Framework
  2. How I Start a Book Project Using a Zettelkasten
  3. Folgezettel Will Not Necessarily Create Discrete Topical Sections in Your Zettelkasten

2024 3

  1. The Difference Between Hub Notes and Structure Notes Explained
  2. How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity
  3. What Do We Mean When We Say "Bottom-Up?"

2023 7

  1. Inspired Destruction: How a Zettelkasten Explodes Thoughts (So You Can Have New Ones)
  2. Doing What Matters Most: Personal Project Management for the Burgeoning Homesteader
  3. Keeping the Zettelkasten in Mind When Creating New Notes
  4. Using Diaries and Journals as Source Material for Zettelkasten Notes
  5. How to Handle Facts in Your Zettelkasten
  6. There is No "One True Meaning" in a Text: Reading as a Communal Act
  7. How to Use Folgezettel in Your Zettelkasten: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

2022 31

  1. Hidden Relevance: Where Seemingly Dissonant Ideas Meet
  2. What is a Permanent Note?
  3. The Spirit of Productivity: Channeling Inspiration Into Doing What Matters Most
  4. Is "Conscious Capitalism" Still an Option? Was it Ever?
  5. Don't Ditch Your Old Notes: An Argument for Holding onto Abandoned Ideas
  6. What is a Fleeting Note?
  7. Folgezettel is Not an Outline: Luhmann's Playful Appreciation of (Dys)function
  8. "I just finished reading a book and took lots of notes. Now what?"
  9. The New Convert and the Old Devotee
  10. What is a Literature Note?
  11. A Zettelkasten is Not for "Making Connections"
  12. Zettelkasten, Linking Your Thinking, and Nick Milo's Search for Ground
  13. Linking New Notes & Fearing Lost Ones
  14. Quotes are Not Notes: Creating a Zettelkasten of Ideas
  15. A scraped knee is never just a scraped knee
  16. Friction-free does not lead to more free time
  17. My former alter ego
  18. How I Use CLOGs to Organize My Writing Files
  19. User-Centric Means Labor-Invisible
  20. Decentralization is Inevitably Centralized
  21. The Spectacle Always Recoups Dissent
  22. Resonance over scale
  23. Misconceptions About the Relationship Between Permanent & Evergreen Notes
  24. Folgezettel is More than Mechanism
  25. Tensions Between Zettelkasten & the Productivity Scene
  26. Obsidian Publish Should Not Cost $198 a Year to Use
  27. How to Be a Good Teacher
  28. Is NYT's Acquiring Wordle the End of an Era?
  29. The Five Levels of Hype
  30. Mindsets that Prevent(ed) Me From Ever Making Money as an Artist
  31. Cars feeling creepy dystopian

2021 2

  1. I Wanna See Writing Gangs!
  2. The Predicament of Bourgeois Anticapitalism