Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

Roam looks neat. I wonder if anyone has tips on how one could use org-mode to achieve some similar results?

There's already an Emacs package which has become quite popular over the last few months! :-)

See "org-roam" [1,2] (and several blog posts and youtube videos by now)

[1]: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam [2]: https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/introducing_org_roam/

There's also Notion (https://www.notion.so/), RemNote (https://www.remnote.io/homepage), and Trilium (https://github.com/zadam/trilium). All can be used as a note-taking system similar to what's outlined in the blog post.

> Though it’s still early days, adopting a Zettelkasten has been one of my most productive habits.

If productivity is measured against the volume of notes taken, sure. Otherwise probably not. Notes are an intermediate step to build something else, which is the real output on which productivity is usually measured.

It's important to keep in mind that Zettelkasten's creator was an academic in the humanities. When I tried this system, I found it really shone when my goal was literature review -- i.e. to weave together arguments from disparate sources and articles, particularly when there was no quantitative or numeric way to do that weaving (e.g. in a table).

I think that more technical and quantitative subjects do not benefit as much from these large 'connectionist' note-taking systems. For example, if your goal is to learn a new programming language, I don't see Zettelkasten being particularly helpful: you've already grokked a a for loop in other languages, and you gain nothing by creating a new linked note under the 'for loop construct' heading. Just do some practice problems instead!

But if your goal is to compare and contrast features across many languages, or to identify where certain software architectures are lacking, Zettelkasten would work just fine.