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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Message: what we encounter (stop sign) Context: how we encounter it (unfamiliar road) Information: what we experience (<stop>) #zettelkasten #knowledgework

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Read a handful of Luhmann books last month, including Organization and Decision and The Reality of the Mass Media. I've come to really enjoy reading Luhmann, who I know for many can be a total slog.

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Practical" (in the case of writing) has to do with common language. Something is practical because it can be understood by the many. And yet, writing that is impractical, doesn't necessarily equate to not-highly-valuable.

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When we engage the content of a note (the message), we experience a degree of information. If we consider it valuable, we record it somewhere. We craft messages (note content) in the hope our engagement with it will produce information (understanding, insights, etc). 1/2

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The informational value of a passage in a book depends on the context in which you encounter it. Much less relavent is the author's intention. This is why the same passage functions differently for different people.

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At the interior design firm I work at: 1. No one but the ceo has my phone number 2. I absolutely do not use slack, g chat, or text 3. Every correspondence goes through email (or for discussion, a quick zoom chat or meeting) 1/

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Depending on the context, the same message can be read as information or non-information. A MPH sign. If you know the speed limit, it's not information. If you don't (and need to), it is. Same message, different proximity to uncertainty. Now apply to passage from a book.

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Informational "noise" in a zettelkasten sense: forgetting what was written, inability to comprehend what was written, new interests over time shifting the significance of what was written, etc. 1/

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

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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Hermetic Library @hermetic.com · 22/04/2025

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.

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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).

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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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Daniel Wirtz @danielwirtz.com · 16/03/2025

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.

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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-...

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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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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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...

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PKM Summit 2025: 14 & 15 March

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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-...

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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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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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-...

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SFW Writing with Your Zettelkasten — bobdoto.computer

Creative people deserve creative systems.

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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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Mike Schmitz @mikeschmitz.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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...

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David Lynch on where ideas come from 🧩 (via ⁠@BAMorg) #RIPDavidLynch

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It's not just this situation, and it's not just Teslas

With Teslas, it is not just remote unlocking and tracking ability that shows who holds the power here. It’s the fact that Teslas are incredibly difficult for independent repair shops to fix. It’s the subscription “Premium Connectivity” entertainment features. It’s the fact that entire feature sets like “full self driving,” which are built into the car’s hardware, can only be unlocked with expensive software purchases or subscriptions. It’s the fact that random Tesla workers spied on customers using onboard cameras and shared them with each other. It’s the fact that cops see Teslas near crime scenes as potential sources of video footage.

It’s the fact that “full self-driving” is being used to train Tesla’s broader self-driving program, which is a software product and which will inevitably become some sort of revenue share or rideshare robotaxi product. All of these “features” are something that is fundamentally incompatible with the concept of individual ownership, and a shift in what we traditionally think of when we purchase a car (or any other product).

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

They broke down how much of a Google search is useless for finding information on a popular topic

Red squabbles everywhere breaking it down for John wicked 5

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/12/2024

maybe the single most damaging thing the internet ever did was expose rich assholes to what everyone else actually thought of them, because every last one of them lost their fucking minds and is determined to burn the world to the ground in order to stop us making fun of them

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Getting 2nd place on Mike's list is a great end-of-year surprise.

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Lil Christmas gift to me: #3 on Amazon in the "Writing" category. 🤗 (Thanks for stepping aside for once, Strunk).

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kepano @stephango.com · 13/12/2024

Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown. Never thought I'd see the day. Google also added Markdown export to Google Docs a few months ago. github.com/microsoft/markitdown

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GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The OED as sauerkraut assistant.

A jar of sauerkraut with the OED resting top.

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Heyooo.... ⚡️ A detailed breakdown of each of the 9 weeks of The System for Writing Master Course is now online! ⚡️ bobdoto.computer/weekly-class...

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Weekly class details — bobdoto.computer

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Gen-x coded text from friend: "Just ran into Ian at the Black Cat after eating Ethiopian food."

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ticketmaster requiring me to download an app to get my tickets is one of the most evil things out there, and should 1000% be illegal.

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Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

For those who wonder how long it takes to make main notes off of your fleeting or reference notes: it just took me 1 hour to process 11 notes.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Corporate media, a play in 3 acts

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C.A. Hixson @drcahixson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Also big thanks to @bobdoto.bsky.social for writing such a great book.

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Bas Grolleman @toolsontech.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Highly recommend, a system for writing by Bob Dota if you want to get the most out of the journey. Really helped me turn thoughts into articles and now into scripts.

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Lykle de Vries @lykledevries.nl · 11/12/2024

I sat down with Bob Doto to talk about Zettelkasten, creativity and his new book "A system for writing" "Getting lost in your notes is a feature, not a flaw" Listen in your fav podcast app: app.springcast.fm/19192/bob-do… #digitalfitness #digitalefitheid #zettelkastenmethod #pkm

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