Hack Your Brain With Zettelkasten - My System for Memorizing Everything

How to memorize and recall what you've learned? The answer is Zettelkasten! Ever since I starter using Zettelkasten, it changed how my brain remembers, it changed how it articulates, and how I find motivation to do hard things! Here is a break down of how you can use Zettelkasten to hack you memory!

⚡️More Framework & Mental Models⚡️

⏱ TIME STAMPS ⏱
00:00 - Zettelkasten changed my brain
02:19 - what is Zettelkasten
05:51 - 1/ Improve working memory with chunking
06:32 - 2/ Transitioning from Working to Long-Term Memory - Indexing
07:44 - 3/ Consolidating Long-Term Memory with Recall & Retrieval practice

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[kontakku]

every time I watch Miss Vicky, I am always challenged to do every what she says, but again laziness haunts me, and finally I understand that it is my biggest enemy to grow and develop, And I hope that one day Ms. Vizky will be happy to provide tips and tricks for overcoming the problems I'm experiencing, but honestly I really enjoy every video, I'm very grateful to you🎉

[ScottMRedmond]

I’ve been watching and learning about zettelkasten for a couple of months after discovering one of your videos. This is hands down the most compelling video I’ve seen about why to do it! Thanks for sharing!!

[bnynmrm]

Amazing video. Your excitement is contagious. I too am excited to implement this method seriously now in my PKM system

[marekkrzysztofiak]

Retrieving practice in Obsidian, e.g. vocabulary in language learning:
1. make (produced as a default or only after) a note with notes to repeat (which are titled in a way that you you're gonna have to recall the content inside)
2. open local graph
3. tell a story with retrieving vocabulary

[karuresu]

I love your passion about it. Good shit here. I'm going to give another try to Zettelkasten now.

Your my favorite "who would you have a coffee with" person right now.

[robleon]

I've never seen you so excited about a topic! But I'm right there with you.

Using the Zettelkasten method has improved my recall and first-brain functions as well. 👍🏻

[LEEeveryday]

Your excitement makes this so fun to learn. I resonate with your passion for these topics and I've been wanting to work on my ability to memorize information and just learn better for a while now. Thank you!

[princessrashidart]

Great job. I’m excited to continue my PKS journey

[sejk-ko]

Thank you for the valuable information + the excitement. I not only love your videos, you have influenced the way I work. Currently struggling with building a Zettlekasten where an idea comes from an author A, that cites author B who has another idea that cites author C... and the rabbit hole goes deep down to somewhere where I forget how it all began. I even created an open-rabbit-hole tag... 👀😄 Need to find a good way of dealing with this. Videos on that would be super welcome!

[biscuitsofdeath]

This was so damn good.

First, I love Barbara Oakley. She rocks and I take some of her Coursera courses.

I never thought of zettlekasten as a retrieval and spaced repetition. But it really makes sense now with the idea compass you and Fei use.

I really suck a zettlekasten. Mainly the review part. I still haven't gotten my note taken down. I'm trying mind maps at the moment.


This video is really exciting because I can see everything converging. After watching your videos got me really interested in how we learn and it put me on a similar path. I'm currently reading thinking fast and slow. What books would you recommend?

Also you're killing it.

[MrTonyradford]

Hi could you describe your process for discovering new connections between atomic notes please. Thanks

[mar_ink]

I am moving from notion to obsidian, never used zettlekasten until know... (i guess thats why yt recommended me this video) and the dopamine boost while connecting small notes its totally true!

[Gigusx]

Hey Vicky, cool video! I don't remember anyone talking about Zettelkasten from the learning angle, it actually connects really well with all I've learned about learning, especially if you always force yourself to look for those connections. But I'm not sure whether it'd be worth having this system unless you also needed all its other benefits (creating new ideas, finding random connections, content creation etc.), since Zettelkasten is really a beast in and of itself that takes a lot of time to maintain and discipline to keep it... usable 😅 For learning specifically I prefer mind maps and keeping them limited to the one topic I'm learning. It's not as robust as Zettelkasten but it works by the same principles - you chunk concepts and relate them to other concepts. In any case, you've given me something to think about now! :)

[koenighaunstetten]

Vicky, thank you so much for doing this video. There is still one thing that bothers me: So if I understand the workflow correctly we collect the "fleeting notes" as well as the "literature notes" (I call them media notes since the also apply to vidoes) and then when we revisit those sooner or later we distill the essence of those notes into "permanent notes" which is our well articlulated knowledge. So if we call the result "permanent notes" does that mean, that e.g. the fleeting notes are only temporary and we can delete them once we processed them? So general question: Are we just adding new "Zettel" or are we also removing some over the time?

[RegularOddball]

I'm a bit sceptical about your point regarding "chunking". in reference to working memory, chunking is not about making information smaller but instead chunking them together into larger whole blocks, e.g. remembering the digits 679476 as 679 476 (two chunks). therefore it's kind of antithetical to your point -- chunking is the opposite of atomicity (which in the numbers example would be more of a 6 7 9 4 7 6 approach).

[BernieAnderson]

As always -- great video. Love it when you do Obsidian/Zettelkasten videos. :-)
Has your Obsidian setup evolved at all? I know you've done a super practical Obsidian/Zettelkasten video in the past. Wondering if that's still working or if you've evolved your system at all. I was very happy with mine -- but now it feels like it's getting a bit unruly and not sure what to do about it.

[Merlin-urdz]

Information on how I received through my parents stories traditionally ceremonies and stories about how we can to be and fault like it's was me and started vision it came about ❤

[nileshtoyta]

Hi i am india gujarat i watch your video wonderfull 🎉🎉🎉

[AdrianGarcia-bdei]

Does anyone know about a simple way to number/name/index the cards? What numbers or letters should I use? I can't find any videos on this!! (I want to do analog notes)

[mazinmazincv]

I watched your several videos about note taking.
I can use this method while reading or listening to prodcast, etc
But how can i use it in school? as a high-school student