PZTL 027 - It's book writing season


Welcome back, we're edging closer and closer to the Minimal Note-Taking book launch, and first and foremost let me say thank you to everyone who's already pre-ordered. It's not long now, and I can't wait for you to get your hands on the first edition.

I'll keep you updated via email about any changes to the launch date, but right now we're still projected for that end-of-the-month weekend of the 28th - 30th.

Thanks for remaining patient as I put this piece of work together. I can't wait to see how the finished product looks all lined up with the new direction of teaching we're heading in, around simple and foundational PKM...


I've continued writing this week, and we've got a couple more pieces to share before the work somewhat dries up...

Well, What's Next?

These are new article cards for the newsletter as well, seeing as we're still working on developing a fresh theme (see last week), I hope you like them!

Obsidian's New Age (Al x PKM): A Complete Guide (August 2026)

Again we're focusing quite heavily on Hermes x Obsidian, and if you're lucky I might tease some ideas I have around this combination throughout the upcoming weeks as well, seeing as there's a lot of traction there (for good reason) that I want to take advantage of.

So that's all for this week - book's coming, and it's the last chance to get into Foundations for a fair old while.

I want to work on putting together a great page to inform people about the program and make quite a number of developments based around feedback that people give me before we go live again.

Scroll back up if you want in, or if you want to read any of the week's content. One more thing...

This newsletter's going to continue so if nothing else, I'll see you next Sunday!


More from PARAZETTEL...

PARAZETTEL Foundations

A guided 2 week program to go from confused and drowning in notes to simple and effective PKM.

Minimal Note-Taking Book

The most important idea I teach, now in book form. Releasing 28th-30th August!


Thanks for joining us at PZTL! I'm Theo and I've been teaching PKM and note-taking for 3+ years now. You can read and watch on Medium and YouTube, or visit the website.

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