The Two Conditions That Helped Me to Finally Understand Zettelkasten

Call it what you want: The Slip-Box, the Note Card system, or Zettelkasten — everything you read on it will be useless without these two basic tenets

Yi Shun Lai
8 min readOct 17, 2021

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library filing cabinet
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I’ve been trying for the last year and a half to implement Ryan Holiday’s great index-card filing…

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Yi Shun Lai

Written by Yi Shun Lai

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Author: A SUFFRAGISTS’S GUIDE TO THE ANTARCTIC (2024), Pin Ups (2020). Columnist, The Writer. theGooddirt.org; @gooddirt. Psst: Say “yeeshun.” You can do it!

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