# Obsidian Zettelkasten

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-zettelkasten/1999>\
**Category:** Knowledge management\
**Tags:** zettelkasten\
**Created:** [June 16, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-zettelkasten/1999 "2020-06-16T19:12:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-zettelkasten/1999/97 "2020-06-23T20:43:27Z")

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**96 - Selecting** is the process you used to **retrieve the information** you are looking for. Typically people use [finding devices] that help you by [sorting](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-zettelkasten/1999/96) the information or using a [search algorithm](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Search_algorithm).

To start the selection process, you need a information trigger. In memory terminology this would be known as a [retrieval cue](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-zettelkasten/1999/199), whether it be a word on a page, something someones says, or a evocative smell.

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