# Digital Zettelkasten  ## Metadata - Author: David Kadavy - Full Title: Digital Zettelkasten - Category: #knowledge-management #organization ## Highlights - The purpose of a fleeting note is to say, "here's something interesting I might want to remember or refer to some day." You need to record just enough information to later decide whether you want to turn your fleeting note into a literature note, permanent note, or someday/maybe. ([Location 330](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B095VY4XGD&location=330)) - Literature notes are informal summaries you write about a piece of media you've consumed. ([Location 341](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B095VY4XGD&location=341)) - Permanent notes are explanations of a single idea, annotated with metadata about the subject of the note, other notes that note is related to, and the source of the note. ([Location 349](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B095VY4XGD&location=349)) - You usually write permanent notes using literature notes as your source. You take only the most important ideas from your literature notes, and turn them into singular notes you can connect with other notes. Once you have many permanent notes, you can construct a rough draft for an entire article or book. ([Location 350](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B095VY4XGD&location=350)) - Once you've exported your highlights, review them and highlight, once again, the parts of those highlights that are the most interesting. ([Location 410](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B095VY4XGD&location=410)) - Look at the highlights of your highlights and re-write the interesting ones in your own words. You're now turning your fleeting notes into a literature note. It's okay not to summarize every highlight. Only worry about the information you most want to learn or that you can foresee wanting to use in the future. ([Location 425](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B095VY4XGD&location=425)) - Now take only the most interesting ideas from the literature notes, and turn each into individual permanent notes. Permanent notes should have one idea per note. ([Location 454](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B095VY4XGD&location=454))