Posts from 2025
The Archive v1.9: Hashtag Auto-Completion
With today’s public release, everyone can enjoy type-to-complete style auto-completion of #hashtags in their Zettelkasten. That means all tags from all of your notes are available for you to insert quickly. Avoid typos and find obscure tags without having to look them up! If you’ve never used any kind of auto-completion before, the main keys are:
Optimize Productivity by Measuring the Mightiness of your Zettelkasten
If you want to increase your productivity, you need a method to measure it. After all, you need information on how high your actual productivity is and what effect changes in your working methods have. The subjective feeling of whether you had a good day has a big advantage and a big disadvantage. The big advantage is that at the end of the day you have a surprisingly accurate sense of whether you were productive or not. In my personal experience, people who are really satisfied with their day and consider it productive are rarely wrong.
How to Do Research with The Archive
Dear Zettlers, Currently, my mind is captured by a phenomenon that I called the ST-gap. This is shorthand for “slow twitch gap”, a model that allows to justify the need for low intensity cardio training and allows you to calculate your needs depending on how you train otherwise. If you have an active lifestyle (going on hikes, walks, work in a garden), perform both strength training and higher intensity endurance training (like interval training, CrossFit-esque training) there is a type of muscle fibre that is undertrained.
Field Report #9: Excerpting Instead of Processing
When I processed Transcend by Kaufman, I encountered the following problems: Lack of authority: The book is not a book for me whose structure I want to follow. It is not valuable to me as a whole, but only as a collection of parts.
Develop Empathy with your Future Self
Dear Zettlers, There is one trait that needs to be developed if you want to make any long-term system work: This trait is a proper relationship with your future self. To understand how a proper relationship with your future self is developed, we need to understand the nature of our future self.
The Archive v1.8: Plug-Ins and Automation
We’re excited to announce the release of The Archive v1.8! Here’s what’s new and improved in this version: This system is a game-changer for users looking to streamline their everyday actions without the need for external tools, like: Quickly create notes from templates;