#### People tend to try to impose structure on their body of content in order to reduce complexity but this ends up inviting more of it --- When starting to use a new external scaffolding^[[[utilizing external scaffolding lessens the cognitive burden]]] for thought such as a [[Zettelkasten]] many encounter a large amount of friction around a single thought: "How should i organize this?". Trying to import your organization structure early on in your growing body of content can restrict the organic growth of your body of content into rigid roles and hierarchy before you even have a chance to see where the organic growth would have led^[[[Simplicity of structure allows complexity of content]]]. Many feel that before they begin they need to organize their content and know where everything will go before beginning. Basically asking the question "Where do i want to find this later?" This approach to your body of content sets one up for more friction later in a [[Zettelkasten]] system as now you have to think about the structure and hierarchy first instead of first how you want your notes link and what the emerging topics and their general structure look like after the fact. Basically asking the question "where would i like to stumble upon this idea?" Overall a great approach for the [[Zettelkasten]] system seems to be to - just make your notes - densely link them - see the emerging structure and topics - institute MOC's (maps of content) - incorporate the MOC's into the Index so there are springboards into areas of thought --- Tags: [[Zettelkasten]] - [[Note Taking]] - [[Organization]] Links: [[{ 2020-09-09 How To Take Smart Notes]] References: