Bob Doto

Lynch telling it like it is. Viewers and readers often think they know how long something should be. The length is what the length is. Even bad stuff. Lots of reason to critique bad stuff. But, "It could've been shorter" is just not a critique. It's a projection. www.instagram.com/reel/DSQDrAt...

Reading Ideas as Information: Sketches of a Theoretical Framework People have trouble capturing ideas, because ideas are inherently slippery. Seeing ideas as actional information, roots ideas in the writing and thinking people are actively working on.

A snippet of some of the more theoretically-forward writing I'm working on these days.... writing.bobdoto.computer/reading-idea...

Nah. The mystic abandons the institutional forms of Christ, Scripture, and Church in order to experience each unencumbered.

This is fundamental and key, imo, with regards to capturing ideas in a zettelkasten even when you can't express or even comprehend them completely. It's Luhmann's "septic tank" idea. The value of an idea comes later, in relationship to other ideas.

Look, all I'm saying is, in this age when they're stuffing hallucination engines into everything, it's time to start, or revive, your hipster PDAs and Zettelkästen.

Timely and on point. When I get responses on Reddit that "post-structuralism and anything that came from it is *poison*", (like I did a month ago), Malabou's words ring in my ear. (listen to the first ten min if nothing else).

So good.

Bob Doto: The Genie of the Zettelkasten Subreddit Become a better writer with the author of the magnificent "A System for Writing" and a Zettelkasten-powered writing instructor, Bob Doto.

Thank you, Malik, for this wonderful, off-the-cuff, chit-chat.... Zettelkasten, AI, garbage writing, and more malikalimoekhamedov.substack.com/p/bob-doto-t...

Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper

Haters of post-structualism beware.... iai.tv/articles/lan...

A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly - A Zettelkasten Primer A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly - A Zettelkasten Primer - Kindle edition by Doto, Bob. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly - A Zettelkasten Primer.

A System for Writing teaches three things: 1. how to identify note types and their functions, 2. how to create relationships between ideas, 3. how to transform relationships into writing

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Love this.

Although, the difference between facticity and factuality still makes my brain dissolve. Halp

This is the way.

A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly - A Zettelkasten Primer This is a book for writers who want to write more, who struggle to write, who ruminate on ideas, but rarely get them down on paper. It's a book for creatives who fear the creative process, for dreamer...

EPUB version of *A System for Writing* is now available through Gumroad!

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Looking for alternatives to Amazon for selling the digital format of A System for Writing. I'm only aware of Gumroad. Anyone have suggestions? Especially grateful if you've used the service for selling ebooks yourself and can speak to its ease of set-up.

Ssshhhhh

Had a great time at #pkmsummit2025, diving deep into productivity, writing, and knowledge management over two days.

Highlights: Giving Nick Milo a demo of @markway.io, showing people
whats possible with Raycast, and @bobdoto.bsky.social writing talk.

Really glad to see more Barthes floating around.

Program PKM Summit 2025 | Notion Besides a central opening and closure of the day, the program is mostly build out of workshops. Interactive sessions where you can learn from each other. In every workshop round you can choose 4 diffe...

I'm giving a demo on how I write with a zettelkasten on Friday after lunch. So, don't stuff yourself into a food coma beforehand. Also, hmu if wanna meet up. I'll be holding court at The Bunk. digitalefitheid.notion.site/Program-PKM-...

One of the many problems with equating reading with "mining" (as in "mining books for knowledge," etc.) is that it equates ideas with rocks.

#uncookedideasabouthowknowledgeworks

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So stoked to be speaking at this year's PKM Summit in Utrecht, where I'll be live demoing how I write with a zettelkasten. Wanna come?? Wanna come for 20% off?? I bring you discounts... www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-pk...

Phones eat memory

Congratulations! Also, for what it's worth, it seems to me like you're one of the most active writers I know around here. Not sure how the "slowly" fits into the equation.

Sounds lovely.

Whoa. I haven't heard about Writing Down the Bones in forever. I've never read it, but I feel like it was making the rounds among my somatic psychotherapy friends (and ex).

Folgezettel Will Not Necessarily Create Discrete Topical Sections in Your Zettelkasten Clearing up misunderstandings about how folgezettel functions in the zettelkasten

A recent ditty on folgezettel. The piece gives a couple brief examples of divergence within alphanumeric "regions" to show just how varied topics can be despite notes sharing the same numeric prefix.

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SFW Writing with Your Zettelkasten — bobdoto.computer Creative people deserve creative systems.

My five-week online course, "Writing with Your Zettelkasten," begins in one week! If you've read A System for Writing, and you feel confident putting to work the various note-types and principles discussed therein, you're ready to take this course. DM w/ ?
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David Lynch on where ideas come from 🧩 (via ​⁠@BAMorg) #RIPDavidLynch YouTube video by Screen Off Script

David Lynch (RIP) on where stories and scripts come from (hint: fragments of ideas). We need more David Lynch's in the pkm /zettelkasten world. m.youtube.com/shorts/-dBKj...