Webinar: The Zettelkasten Method - A system for growing your knowledge and creating an integrated thinking environment

The Zettelkasten Method is a method to create an integrated thinking environment. This means that you create a medium for your own thinking by means of individual notes and linking them. The zettelkasten becomes a lifelong companion for storing knowledge, developing ideas, and preparing articles, lectures, workshops and more.

Target Audience

All employees from WU and Engage.EU partner universities, whose work is based on coherent thinking, generating and connecting ideas and are thus interested in modern methods of knowledge work.

Goals

This workshop introduces the basic ideas of the Zettelkasten and over the course of a semester helps you to establish your own integrated thinking environment with the benefits:

1. Reliable integration of new insights and ideas into your already existing knowledge.
2. Improved recall and comprehension through depth of processing.
3. An improved integration of thinking, writing, and publishing.
4. The development of a personal style of working within the framework of the universals of knowledge work.

Content

1. Fundamentals: The fundamental ability to create a lifelong and software-independent system for knowledge work. (The fundamental Dos and Don’ts of the system, choosing software)
2. The individual note: The skill to fully develop a thought and record it in such a way that you can understand it forever.
3. The system: The ability to create thinking canvases within the system so that you can work on a project both in the moment and over decades without losing track of it.
4. The use of the system: Improving the quantity and quality of your publications and decisions.
5. The integration in everyday life: Adapting your approach to knowledge work to having an integrated thinking environment.

Methods

We will meet in regular sessions: Wednesdays, from 9.00 – 10.00 am. Please note: the first session will take 2 hours, from 9.00 to 11.00 am!

Additionally, the trainer will provide you with open consulting hours. The time-slots for the open consulting hours will be based on the preferences of the participants.

In cooperation with
 

This course is part of the ENGAGE.EU Staff Academy, an initiative to enable academic and administrative staff to take part in workshops across the partner universities of ENGAGE.EU (an alliance of leading European universities in business, economics, and the social sciences). Enhancing the professional skills of our staff is at the core of the ENGAGE.EU staff academy - an opportunity for you to access intercultural courses and new and rich experiences.

Registration process for WU staff:

Please register as usual via the "Register" button in the menu on the left and follow the instructions.

Registration process for staff members of ENGAGE.EU partner universities:

Please send us an e-mail to personneldevelopment@wu.ac.at with the following information:

• Course title
• Full name
• Gender
• Name of your university
• Organizational unit
• Personnel category: administrative or academic staff member, with or without leadership responsibility

Participation is free of charge for staff members of ENGAGE.EU partner universities. Nevertheless, please inform us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend by email to personneldevelopment@wu.ac.at. There are often waiting lists and this will give another person the chance to attend.

The course is partly organized via the my.km platform. By registering, you agree to the processing of your data in accordance with our Data Protection Statement.

In cooperation with

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• Fundamentals: The fundamental ability to create a lifelong and software-independent system for knowledge work. (The fundamental Dos and Don’ts of the system, choosing software)
• The individual note: The skill to fully develop a thought and record it in such a way that you can understand it forever.
• The system: The ability to create thinking canvases within the system so that you can work on a project both in the moment and over decades without losing track of it.
• The use of the system: Improving the quantity and quality of your publications and decisions.
• The integration in everyday life: Adapting your approach to knowledge work to having an integrated thinking environment.