- Author: [[zettelkasten.de]] - Full Title: A Tale of Complexity – Structural Layers in Note Taking • Zettelkasten Method - Tags:: [[Structure Notes]] - URL: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/three-layers-structure-zettelkasten/ - ### Highlights first synced by [[Readwise]] [[2020-12-08]] - The first layer of course consists of content notes ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1367917017/14806871)) - But after a while, you won’t be able to keep up ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1367917017/14806878)) - It must have been between 1000 and 1500 notes when this became too much to handle. I needed more structure. With every additional note I continued to lose my grip on the archive ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1367917017/14806881)) - Now, I am at a point where my structure notes embed the structure itself. Take a look at one of my structure notes: A real-world structure note. They look much like a table of contents. It’s because they are tables of contents. A table of contents is a structured set of chapters of a book, a set with hierarchy and order. Of course, a book’s page sequence is ordered according to the table of contents for the reader’s convenience. A structure note doesn’t need to adhere to any didactic needs or any needs other than yours. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1367917017/14806888)) - Top Layer: Main Structure Notes and Double Hashes ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1367917017/14806892)) - The structure note is tagged with a special tag: [[self-worth]]. If I search for self-worth (note the single hash!) I get all the notes that deal with this concept but with a double hash I go directly where the money is in my archive: The top-level structure note. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1367917017/14806901))