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Zettelkasten are one of a set of related tools for knowledge management, information tracking, and creativity facilitation. They've been submitted several times on HN, though usually to little discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Among the more active mentions, a submission of mine a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208196 I'd also recommend "How to o…
I found that the value of these systems for me is highly dependent on the amount of engagement I put into it in practice - if I engage eith the 'cards' often, updating them or reordering them, the content and the links of the card are much more present in my mind and generate new ideas. Compared to this factor, the system used for linked notes is of secondary importance.
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The page honestly reads like Hesse’s “description” of the glass-bead game: lots of things and no true explanation.
Thanks for your feedback, I'm still working on my writing skills :)
In analogy to Zettelkasten I put my notes into different (nestable) boxes what they call hashes. The app eco system is quite hacker friendly as they publicly document the underlying SQLite database. I don't that possibility because their apps help me organizing my notes well enough til this point.
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I’ve kept a personal wiki since about 2007 for my notes on medicine and pathology. The “structure discovery” function it enables is very similar to Zettelkasten. I would submit the affordances of physicality can’t be replicated in software without AR.
I would like to understand why you think that, could you explain a bit why it cant be replicated?
Zettelkasten has to be the least explained concept I've discovered online. Sure, they'll explain the _technique_ of it, but I've almost never seen any solid examples of it in _use_. I was so excited when I first heard of it, but I'm a person that learns by seeing examples and I couldn't find any good ones anywhere. Does anyone have any good examples they've seen?
I've had precisely your reaction, and am stoked to share my enthusiasm for Roam ( https://roamresearch.com ) -- a graph-based system for codex / memex / personal knowledge-base / zettelkasten++
I've tried to keep a Zettleksaten several times now with no real luck. My most recent try was using TiddlyWiki, with each Tiddler being an entry, usually containing a single piece of information. Perhaps it's the way TiddlyWiki is laid out, but I didn't particularly find the filing system to be of any real benefit to me. After my 30 day experiment I had nearly 1,000 Tiddlers and the majority were interlinked. When I…
I've been using TiddlyWiki for almost a year. Most of my 400 Tiddlers are either code snippets with explanations or an probably ~2 paragraphs of text on average. I haven't experienced any galaxy brain type moments. The search is good enough, I can add and link to images, and it supports KaTeX for math. Those are probably the killer features for me.
If anything, I'd love to switch to something that let me work on iOS natively, but I've been happy enough to not look too hard for anything else.
I found this [1] series of posts to be incredible for implementing Zettelkasten using org-mode in Emacs. I don't use Zettelkasten myself, but maybe I'll have the time to get around to it... [1]: https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/org_mode_workflow_preview/
Zettelkasten has to be the least explained concept I've discovered online. Sure, they'll explain the _technique_ of it, but I've almost never seen any solid examples of it in _use_. I was so excited when I first heard of it, but I'm a person that learns by seeing examples and I couldn't find any good ones anywhere. Does anyone have any good examples they've seen?
Tutorial: https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/zettelkasten/inhalt... Zettel 1: https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/zettelkasten/zettel...