# Zettelkasten's creativity work flows Look for a topic that catch your interest by picking a random notes. Raise new question or follow existing question in the notes, then research on it and elaborate by writing new related notes. If you need a reminder of what topics excite you - open the graph view and look for clusters. During this process you might be surprised by reminding you of old forgotten notes that might be helpful in your current thinking also in other topics. Construct new ideas when seeing conflicting notes (analysis) or similar-unrelated one (synthesis). When you get stuck on one topic move to progress another one by looking at another interesting idea you find in your slip-box. When you want to deeply understand a topic - summarize all your notes on the topic in a single note. Then, you should read what you wrote, pick the fundamental ideas, understand them deeply, understand how ideas are related to each other. hopefully light will break and order will come from the mess.[^1] References: [[@How to take smart notes]] section 12, page 121 ## Created 2023-12-01 06:48 [^1]:  [@The intellectual life](app://obsidian.md/@The%20intellectual%20life)