The Zettelkasten method to writing a paper

From ⚟ How to Take Smart Notes, starting on pages 23-26:

1. Make fleeting notes
2. Make literature notes
3. Make permanent notes
4. Add permanent notes to the slip box by:
   1. Filing each one behind one or more related notes
   2. Adding links to related notes
   3. Link to it from the index, or make a link to it from a note that’s already an entry point
5. Develop topics, questions, and research bottom up
   1. Take more notes, develop ideas further, see where things take you
   2. Do not brainstorm for a topic, instead see where chains of notes have been built up to clusters.
   3. Don’t cling to an idea if another, more promising one gains momentum
6. After a while, you will have developed ideas far enough to decide on a topic to write about
7. Turn notes into a rough draft
8. Edit and proofread the manuscript. Give yourself a pat on the shoulder and turn to the next manuscript.

From page 74:

To get a good paper written, you only have to rewrite a good draft; to get a good draft written, you only have to turn a series of notes into a continuous text. And as a series of notes is just the rearrangement of notes you already have in your slip-box, all you really have to do is have a pen in your hand when you read.