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- I think this note relates to this other note.
For date, I do `YYYY-MM-DD` because that's what is needed for the Hugo static site generator and theme I use. Title, if not auto-generated by Logseq, is just the title of note. Category is something for my website; I have `Zettelkasten`, `blog`, `info`, `art`, stuff like that. Then of course I have tags.
Next is where I write the actual note. To reiterate: this is not me rewriting something in my own words. This is my interpretation of something. This is me creating my own ideas in conversation with something else.[^7]
[^7]: [Quotes are Not Notes: Creating a Zettelkasten of Ideas](https://writing.bobdoto.computer/quote-are-not-notes-creating-a-zettelkasten-of-ideas/) by Bob Doto
I usually include the quotation I'm interacting with as a Markdown quotation, and I use Markdown footnotes to source it.
If the note is a Folgezettel, I link the parent note.
Then, I put this note in conversation with other notes in my Zettelkasten. This is where a lot of the direct linking between my notes happens.
## Step 3: Ouroboros
Just because they're "permanent" notes, it doesn't mean they can't change. My Zettelkasten is a living thing that grows and changes. I can revisit notes and make new connections. I can break a note up into multiple new notes.
When I see I have enough notes on a topic, I can create something about it. That thing I create can inform other notes and inspire new notes.
The ouroboros is a mythical serpent eating its own tail. It shows up in many different cultures and belief systems. A common meaning of the ouroboros is that of cyclical renewal, death and rebirth.
My Zettelkasten is always in a state of flux, death, and rebirth. It is not static. Like the ouroboros, it feeds itself with itself. However, it is not autopoietic, a self-sustaining/creating system. My Zettelkasten is sympoietic, a system [deeply intertwingled](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertwingularity) with external information.