objective information, observations, and general ideas) and the manuscript (i.e. Now, I can more clearly separate the separates permanent notes (i.e. This inevitably led to much wasted effort and stubbornness: I did not want to delete parts of my manuscript because I was afraid I would waste the hours of effort that had gone into writing down and developing those ideas, and I would then end up with manuscripts that had a lot of tangents that did not contribute to developing central ideas. Before, I made no clear distinctions between my manuscript and my notes. What I can say, however, is that the Zettelkasten method has fundamentally changed my view on notes vs.
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These are some old pictures of visual aides: Mindmap of Death and the King’s Horseman I made for a paper Picture of my very messy office when I had to write the first draft of my dissertation’s literature reviewĮxample of how I use Numbers to create visual aides Download This video by James Heyton, as well as other videos by him, is currently helping me to structure the content of doctoral dissertation manuscript. As I am writing my manuscript, I look at (and copy paste from) my permanent notes and these visual aides constantly, adding and changing bits to create a linear narrative that connects everything together. All that I can say is that much of the behind-the-scenes work happens outside Obsidian: the information I record in my permanent notes gets transferred onto mind maps, post-its, and spreadsheets so I can have more visual outlines in addition to tentative chapter-outlines within Obsidian.
Writing the manuscript-as opposed to writing literature permanent notes-is a whole other beast and I cannot give much advice there. In those cases where I have to use a different style sheet or citation style, I can use this automation as a basis. docx document that I can tweak before submission by adding things that would be too cumbersome to do with Pandoc for simple manuscript, such as adding logos or headings.
This Keyboard Maestro automation generates a. Please make sure to add variable paths to the folder that contains all your documents (i.e. Keyboard-maestro-macro-doc-conversion-word Download one Markdown file) manuscript, I copy-paste the text into the “manuscript.md” file and run the following automation in Keyboard Maestro: Whenever I want to convert a simple (i.e. (See Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody very basic but excellent video on Pandoc)įor this automation, I created a folder in my vault where I store a style sheet (a Word template with my preferred formatting), a bibliography file (.bibtex), a reference document (.csl) in my preferred citation style, and a Markdown document titled “manuscript.md”. To create these short documents, I used Pandoc in combination with a Keyboard Maestro automation that I can reuse for manuscripts with similar characteristics. At present, my workflow to convert permanent notes into a manuscript is still very preliminary, seeing as I have only created two 10-page manuscripts with this method. where I used to start a manuscript with a blank page, now I write manuscripts by looking at stuff that I already have a lot of notes on.
From permanent notes to a manuscript: PandocĪs permanent notes start to emerge from processing my reading, I have the basis to create (parts of) manuscripts from the bottom up-i.e.From literature notes to permanent notes: Obsidian.From fleeting notes to literature notes: Obsidian.From references to fleeting notes: Zotero and Zotero plug-ins.
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