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I recently integrated Zettelkasten into my 15+ year collection of org notes. Following Jethro Kuan's slip box approach, I organized my notes into four categories:
- main - Quick thoughts and snippets
- references - Ideas from books, articles, and other sources
- article - Long-form content like paper reviews and essays (synthesis of multiple notes)
- project - GTD-style task management (The default bucket for all my existing notes)
Combining Zettelkasten with GTD
The project directory bridges Zettelkasten and GTD workflows. I use ripgrep with custom org-agenda settings to find TODO items in project files and surface them in my agenda.
Why separate projects from other notes?
- Keeps zettels conceptual and task-free
- Prevents org-agenda from scanning thousands of note files, which would be unusably slow
- Forces clear distinction between concepts (zettels) and actionable tasks (projects)
You can find my setup here.