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Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
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Re: Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
#152I used to do all my notetaking in Tomboy. It had very few features (no embedding of pictures even) but it was lightning-fast and you could add links on the go just by typing them. One of the big benefits was that there were keyboard shortcuts for literally everything. However the application was deprecated and the "NG" version of Tomboy didn't have the same performance. I moved to OneNote for the pictures which didn'…
Another former user of Tomboy here, back from the GNOME 2 era. I think I ran it for a good while after the .deb was removed from official repositories. I'm just using paper notebooks now.
Re: Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
#153In terms of an actual product, this is a note with clickable hashtags ? This seems like an evolution of an idea that originated in the days before free text search. If you have a personal diary which supports free text search (most hug trackers), why would you need to build structure?
You could see each entry as a function in a programming language. You don't want to repeat yourself. Instead, you implement that function and reuse it where you need.
Re: Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
#154OneNote's Linked Notes Taking does exactly this. You can combine it with the "Dock to Desktop" / Docked Window feature which makes it hijack a part of the desktop space (to the RHS, typically) so that you can continue to take notes while reviewing stuff on the LHS. The window on the LHS can be another OneNote window (or one of the other Office applications), and as you type in the RHS, docked window, sentences are au…
Linked notes are amazing because they instantly give you context to your notes.
OneNote is easily the best note taking app out there.
Re: Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
#155Are Zettelkasten the latest Hipster fad? A fortnight or so ago, I saw a link on HN mentioning 'Zettelkasten' and had to look up the word, because I'd never heard it before. Since then, there must have been a Zettelkasten reference at least every other day.
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon or Frequency Illusion is the phenomenon where something you recently learned suddenly appears everywhere
That is certainly a thing. But on HN, we really do have topical trends. When an article gets popular, and piques our interest, people keep researching it. And finding related topics and articles, and those also get posted. We also see it impact the "Show HN" posts - before coronacrisis, we were seeing so many curated job postings sites that it got to be a bit of a joke. Just in the last couple week, we've see an uptick in blogging tools, and in the past couple days, an uptick in data gathering sites for police action. Trends do exist.
Re: Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
#156Don't know how these systems work, but I can recommend Quiver for note-taking. You can link to other notes from within notes.
Re: Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
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I tried Zettelkasten a few months ago and I found a lot of what you said to be true. It also has a serious upfront labor overhead that really makes it hard to stick with. Then I discovered Building a Second Brain and it's P.A.R.A. method which was like Just-in-Time Zettelkasten and it's suddenly become a cornerstone of my productivity routine. I compare the two approaches in this blog post: I recently studied both Ze…
I find that for myself, the ease with which I can take notes depends on the tool that I'm using. I've tried Notion and Zettlr, but both take a bit to get going. Have you used anything that you find well suited for the tasks of either PARA or Zettelkasten?
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Re: Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
Believe it or not, but I'm a native speaker and I can say that I've never heard the word in any other context. Despite the fact that the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system was pushed by just about every teacher. The usual word is "Karteikasten", "(Lern-)Kartei" oder "Vokabelbox".
> Believe it or not, but I'm a native speaker and I can say that I've never heard the word in any other context. How is your own lack of knowledge relevant for this? Did you even bother to at least visit https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten to educate yourself first? > The usual word is "Karteikasten", That is a modern synonym, but not quite the same. This is more specific for organized indexboxes. > "(Lern-)Ka…
You’re defending the claim that Zettelkasten is a commonly used word. You do that by smugly telling GP they need to go to Wikipedia to educate themselves about it. I guess that nicely proves their point?
Re: Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find that for myself, the ease with which I can take notes depends on the tool that I'm using. I've tried Notion and Zettlr, but both take a bit to get going. Have you used anything that you find well suited for the tasks of either PARA or Zettelkasten?
Roam Research
great but expensive.
Re: Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
#160Don't know how these systems work, but I can recommend Quiver for note-taking. You can link to other notes from within notes.
Oh, I actually have "How to take smart notes" in my library ¯\_(ツ)_/¯