# Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method • Zettelkasten Method **Covers**:: **Source**:: [Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method • Zettelkasten Method](https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/) **Creator**:: [[zettelkasten.de]] # Highlights ##### ^305244854 highlight_tags:: [[note writing]] I both agree and disagree. Filling your notes up with only surface level or tangentially related notes will make using your web harder, but actively recalling notes that are even a little related is part of the reason we use this method. Sometimes I will just link five or ten notes without thinking about it, and then I will go and revise those connections down to the most relevant ones. ###### ^305244854q In short, to collect connections without an explicit intention, captured meaning, or statement of relevance is not knowledge production, and as a habit, it is even counter-productive: You make shallowness of work a habit and lower your skill as a creative knowledge worker in consequence. ^305244854