writing is like an art which it is something we can become better at with experience and deliberate practice experts in any field rely on experience which enables them to learn the state of virtuosity to become an expert we need the freedom to make our own decisions and all necessary mistakes that help us learn, like bicycling it can be only learned by doing. the workflow around zettelkasten is not a prescription that tells you what to do at which stage of writing it’s quite the opposite as it gives you a structure of clearly separable tasks which can be completed within a reasonable time and in the same time provide you with instant feedback through inter-connected writing