#45 -How to Organize Your Ideas as a Creative Person

The Creative Stoic Podcast

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0:30 Every creative craft start with writing.

1:00 Organization of ideas for content creators.

2:00 Zettlekasten box of index cards Niklas Luhmann's system to organize ideas.

3:00 How the system works in paper.

4:00 Personal Wikipedia for organization of ideas.

5:00 How to put ideas together to write books.

5:30 Niklas Luhmann room was full of drawers and paper.

6:00 Get early access to the online course I'm creating for this note-taking philosophy. Support me on: Patreon.

8:00 Note-taking philosophy.

8:20 The power of simplicity.

8:30 NASA's Pen Story.

The story says that NASA spent a decade and $12 billion to build a ballpoint pen that works without gravity. By 1965, scientist found a way to create such pen with a pressurized ink cartridge and compressed nitrogen.

The Russians simply solved this problem by using a pencil.
The takeaway is not to over-complicate things, and to look for what's obvious.

9:30 Unfortunately, the story is not true.

The people at NASA are not that dumb. They where fully aware of the pencil as an alternative.

It turns out that pencils are dangerously flammable in space. If the tip breaks and gets lost in the spaceship it can cause serious problems.

Paul C. Fisher developed the zero gravity pen which was approved by NASA and used in space. Fisher now sells his very expensive pens online.

10:30 What does this story say about simplicity?

10:45 Simplicity takes work, but it's always worth to achieve.

11:10 Take time and energy setting up systems that will pay off in the future.

11:30 The problem of traditional notetaking apps.

12:30 Making notes help you reach your work.

13:00 Plain Text Files.

13:20 Paper vs Digital.

14:00 Files from proprietary software expires and dies.

14:30 Vim the powerful way to take notes. It's complicated and it has a difficult learning curve, but it's worth it.

15:00 Trying open source fee apps to start.

Check out episode 35 of the podcast, for an interview with the owner of QOwnNotes.

15:30 Note taking app Zettlr that uses plain text files.

16:00 If you are interested to learn more about these things send me a message. If you want early access to my online course support me on Patreon and let me know how can I help you specific needs.

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