After months of trying to find a simple, straightforward Zettelkasten for Notion, I decided to build my own. I want to first give credit to Ev Chapman for her Medium piece on building a "simple Zettelkasten," which proved to be a big "ah ha" moment, and was the initial inspiration for this template.
This Super Simple Zettelkasten template is meant to provide the user with the intuitiveness and flexibility of a digital Zettelkasten, while at the same time retaining the feel and tactility of a physical one.
However, this template will provide you with more than just a Zettelkasten. This template is an entire Zettelkasten workflow, which will take you from capturing Fleeting Notes to importing robust, atomic Permanent Notes.
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My Notion Zettelkasten is divided up into four sections:
This is what your landing page will look like. (Since you'll be building this on your own, you can disregard the text you see in the tables):
As you can see by the tiny arrows next to every database, each section is a Linked Database, a mirror of the main Notes Database (in the images labeled as "Demo Notes Template"), which is where all the notes live in the background, regardless of their state of completion.