Bob Doto
@bobdoto.bsky.social
Author of *A System for Writing* amazon.com/dp/B0D18J83VB
📝 Capture Thoughts
🕸 Make Connections
🐎 Think Wildly
💻 Write Constantly
I really enjoy talking with people. Hmu in the feed. Also, backgammon.
📝 Capture Thoughts
🕸 Make Connections
🐎 Think Wildly
💻 Write Constantly
I really enjoy talking with people. Hmu in the feed. Also, backgammon.
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...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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...
A snippet of some of the more theoretically-forward writing I'm working on these days.... writing.bobdoto.computer/reading-idea...
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.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A snippet of some of the more theoretically-forward writing I'm working on these days.... writing.bobdoto.computer/reading-idea...
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.
“You only come to know these things in hindsight – when you look back and see the precarious chain of events, happenstance, and good fortune that led to wherever you are now. Before you reach that point, you have no way of predicting... https://writingslowly.com/2025/05/04/you-only-come-to-know.html
The Organised Writer
How to stay on top of all your projects and never miss a deadline.
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May 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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.
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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.
April 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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).
April 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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).
Thank you, Malik, for this wonderful, off-the-cuff, chit-chat.... Zettelkasten, AI, garbage writing, and more malikalimoekhamedov.substack.com/p/bob-doto-t...
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.
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March 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Thank you, Malik, for this wonderful, off-the-cuff, chit-chat.... Zettelkasten, AI, garbage writing, and more malikalimoekhamedov.substack.com/p/bob-doto-t...
Haters of post-structualism beware.... iai.tv/articles/lan...
Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper
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March 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Haters of post-structualism beware.... iai.tv/articles/lan...
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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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.
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March 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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
www.amazon.com/dp/B0D18J83VB
www.amazon.com/dp/B0D18J83VB
EPUB version of *A System for Writing* is now available through Gumroad!
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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...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
EPUB version of *A System for Writing* is now available through Gumroad!
traditionkeeper8.gumroad.com/l/asystemfor...
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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.
March 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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.
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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.
Highlights: Giving Nick Milo a demo of @markway.io, showing people
whats possible with Raycast, and @bobdoto.bsky.social writing talk.
March 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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.
Highlights: Giving Nick Milo a demo of @markway.io, showing people
whats possible with Raycast, and @bobdoto.bsky.social writing talk.
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-...
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...
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March 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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
#uncookedideasabouthowknowledgeworks
March 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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
#uncookedideasabouthowknowledgeworks
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...
PKM Summit 2025: 14 & 15 March
Unlock the Power of Knowledge! Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is revolutionizing the way we deal with information. Join the community!
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February 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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...
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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Folgezettel Will Not Necessarily Create Discrete Topical Sections in Your Zettelkasten
Clearing up misunderstandings about how folgezettel functions in the zettelkasten
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February 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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.
writing.bobdoto.computer/folgezettel-...
writing.bobdoto.computer/folgezettel-...
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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SFW Writing with Your Zettelkasten — bobdoto.computer
Creative people deserve creative systems.
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February 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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/ ?
bobdoto.computer/sfw-writing-...
bobdoto.computer/sfw-writing-...
Prieur: "The 'deep state' is a propaganda term for a clunky bureaucracy that T* wants to replace w old-fashioned corruption: public officials using the office for personal gain. Not that that doesn't happen now, but it will surely get worse w so many grifters & easy marks." ranprieur.com/index.html
Ran Prieur
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January 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Prieur: "The 'deep state' is a propaganda term for a clunky bureaucracy that T* wants to replace w old-fashioned corruption: public officials using the office for personal gain. Not that that doesn't happen now, but it will surely get worse w so many grifters & easy marks." ranprieur.com/index.html
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ONE MORE DAY to save $200 on my Practical PKM cohort! Includes a complimentary copy of LifeHQ ($297), a year of access to The Library ($500), and ALL of my video courses ($485).
It's $797 until midnight Sunday! You can find out more and sign up here: join.practicalpkm.com
It's $797 until midnight Sunday! You can find out more and sign up here: join.practicalpkm.com
Practical PKM Cohort
4-week live cohort to craft your custom knowledge management system in Obsidian. Gain actionable workflows to organize your ideas, spark creativity, and confidently manage your projects
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January 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
ONE MORE DAY to save $200 on my Practical PKM cohort! Includes a complimentary copy of LifeHQ ($297), a year of access to The Library ($500), and ALL of my video courses ($485).
It's $797 until midnight Sunday! You can find out more and sign up here: join.practicalpkm.com
It's $797 until midnight Sunday! You can find out more and sign up here: join.practicalpkm.com
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...
David Lynch on where ideas come from 🧩 (via @BAMorg) #RIPDavidLynch
YouTube video by Screen Off Script
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January 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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...
There seems to be some confusion in the PKM world re the difference btwn "maintaining" and "maintenance." You maintain your zettelkasten practice by regularly engaging with your zettelkasten. You perform maintenance on your zettelkasten when there's a problem. Doing -vs- fixing.
January 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There seems to be some confusion in the PKM world re the difference btwn "maintaining" and "maintenance." You maintain your zettelkasten practice by regularly engaging with your zettelkasten. You perform maintenance on your zettelkasten when there's a problem. Doing -vs- fixing.
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It's not just this situation, and it's not just Teslas
January 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It's not just this situation, and it's not just Teslas
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They broke down how much of a Google search is useless for finding information on a popular topic
January 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
They broke down how much of a Google search is useless for finding information on a popular topic
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