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+[[!meta title="Build a Zettelkasten with the Hyperbole Rolodex"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2022 Ramin Honary"]]
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+# Build a Zettelkasten with the Hyperbole Rolodex
+Ramin Honary ("Rah-mean" (hard-H) "Ho-na-ree", he/him)
+
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+"Zettelkasten" is a methodology for marshalling your knowledge,
+ideas, creativity, into a database of hyperlinked notes, each note
+representing a single quantity of knowledge. The method was first
+devised by a well-published social scientist named Niklas Luhmann.
+Though he constructed his database with actual slips of paper in a
+box with a notebook for indexing, naturally, modern software removes
+the manual labor from the process. In the world of Emacs packages,
+Org Mode is the most well-known package that provides the tools
+necessary for building a Zettelkasten, but it is not the only Emacs
+package to provide such tools. But there is an alternative: an
+oft-overlooked Emacs package called Hyperbole, and in particular the
+"Rolodex" feature, called "HyRolo." It was originally designed for
+tracking your personal relations, but it can be used to build a
+Zettelkasten with almost no additional configuration or 3rd-party
+packages. HyRolo is a purely textual database, and does not require
+an external database software to index the notes. It also provides a
+very rich set of "actions" so that notes not only link to each
+other, but can also trigger Emacs to execute code as well.
+
+Outline: (about 1 minute per outline item)
+
+1. Quick overview of the Zettelkasten methodology
+ - 1.1. What is a single quantity of knowledge
+ - 1.2. Linking between pieces of knowledge
+ - 1.3. Composing pieces of knoweldge into hierarchies
+2. Tools provided by the Hyperbole Rolodex (HyRolo)
+
+ 2.1. The plain text database format
+
+ 2.1.1. Possible brief digression to explain Hyperbole menu
+ system
+
+ 2.2. Demo how to add a new entry
+
+ 2.3. Demo how to searching entries
+
+ 2.4. Demo how to hyperlink entries
+
+ 2.5. Overview of the many various types of hyperlink actions
+
+ 2.6. How to compose a hierarchy of notes.
+3. Practical examples
+ - 3.1. Managing daily tasks
+ - 3.1.1. Integration with Org Agenda to manage TODO lists
+ - 3.1.2. Keeping track of people, conversations, mail
+ - 3.1.3. Keeping track of work, projects
+ - 3.2. Doing research, writing blogs or papers
+ - 3.2.1. Note hierarchies become your table of contents
+ - 3.2.2. Following chains of ideas to fill in each section, trimming excess prose
+ - 3.2.3. Keeping track of sources, references
+ - 3.3. Writing fiction
+ - 3.3.1. Heirarchy is less rigid, should follow the story telling model: intro -> conflict -> climax -> resolution
+ - 3.3.2. Rolodex of fictional characters, chain ideas such that they construct a personal history for each character
+ - 3.3.3. Chains of events are not as important as establishing tone and mood. Order of exposition need not be linear
+4. Conclusions
+
+
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+[[!taglink CategoryHyperbole]] [[!taglink CategoryZettelkasten]]