In preparing for some of my end-of-the-year review from my card index, I thought it would be interesting to choose the “Best Note of the Year”. Then it thought it might be worth choosing a “Best Insight”, “Most Surprising Note”, and a “Best Folgezettel” as well.
And if you’re going to give out an award, it should involve a trophy of some sort, right?!? So naturally I went out and picked up a “4 x 6 inch index card” made out of India Black Granite that I plan on engraving with the Note of the Year. At 3/8ths of an inch thick, it is by a large stretch the thickest index card I have in my zettelkasten.
As it may be an interesting end-of-year review practice, I thought I would open up the “competition” to others who’d like to participate. Are there other categories one should enter cards for consideration?
What is your “Best Note of the Year”?
I think I’d rather get a framed 4×6 paper card from one of your typewriters vs engraved 🙂 (preferably from the Royal KMG!!!)
This sounds fun! Make sure to share the results with us!
Have you thought out how you’re going to do the competition yet?
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Careful! I remember when u/atomicnotes asked people what their best note is and they got torn to shreds!
I kid… sort of.
I’m intrigued by this, and the thought of reviewing my cards sounds like a luxury. But I don’t know when I made them, so I don’t know which ones were from this year! I started last year. I suppose I could look at them all.
I don’t know about that, but I did find that some people in China are using zk. There’s no linguistic obstacle (I have both Chinese and English cards), and the categorical flexibility of zk lends itself to multicultural thinking. Structure of knowledge of course is reflected in the Dewey and LC cataloguing systems. A book that takes on what might be called the “Chinese structure of knowledge” is one to which I made a small contribution: Jack Chen, Anatoly Detwyler et al., eds, Literary Information in China: A History.