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I've recently had much more luck with https://johnnydecimal.com/ , mirroring content structure across all my devices and even physically.
The Zettelkasten thing is really nice but it keeps coming up as a 'new discovery' every few weeks.
Personally I don't have the attention to detail for it so I'll never do it.
I've been using the Zettelkasten method for a few months now and I could never go back to the way I was taking notes before. I picked "The Archive" for the app and have a Git repo located on OneDrive. It just works and there is no guessing how things get organized. I can keep my notes not only synced, but I also get version controlled markdown files. You can setup VSCode to accomplish the same tasks through extension…
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Maybe instead of building another one, go help improve existing ones.
I appreciate the implied question... why do this? Essentially I believe the current approaches fail to be 'mainstream friendly'. I've started to discuss this with a neuroscientist friend of mine and we are currently exploring why this is the case.
Maybe Zettelkasten won't be ever 'mainstream friendly'?
I use Obsidian and Notion (before that I've used txt files, Evernote and Joplin) but I don't use Zettelkasten method. And personally I think there is already so many different note taking apps that building another one won't do anything. And there are some good open source apps that would use some extra help. Of course you can do whatever you want.
For VSC there is also Dendron [1], which I found nicer than Foam. After lots of trial/error and at the end of the rabbit hole I found Emacs with org-roam [2]. It has a steep learning-curve and often seems outdated, but it is also very powerful, has VIM hotkeys, and allows me to create the academic workflow I want - so far I can automatically create a note from my Zotero .bib library, fill it based on a template and t…
Is Dendron on par with Foam for data visualization with related tags? If it works the same way then is it a case of installing the extension with little config after that? I'm not opposed to switching again
I liked Dendron more, as it seemed a more curated experience - the creator has a plan and is hard at work to make his "customers" happy.
"Dendron, the client, is free and will always remain free. It is also open source so anyone is free to make their own fork of Dendron.
That being said, I'm all in on Dendron and this is my full time gig. I want to make sure that developing Dendron remains sustainable. To that end, I plan on introducing value add server side functionality that folks may pay for."
PS: Why not switch to Emacs? It will only take a measly year to get comfortable! :)
Why does this keep making HN headlines? The Zettelkasten thing is really nice but it keeps coming up as a 'new discovery' every few weeks. Personally I don't have the attention to detail for it so I'll never do it.
https://twitter.com/lostintangent/status/1282047676377231360...
https://twitter.com/lostintangent/status/1334225746751983618...
https://twitter.com/lostintangent/status/1282850227695652865...
I built this so that I could manage my knowledge in GitHub, but edit my notes like I would with Notion/OneNote (i.e. commit/push on save). It also supports managing code snippets via gists, since I’ve found that my personal knowledge is composed of notes and code snippets, and I wanted a single, editor-integrated solution for managing them both.
Foam + GistPad recipe: https://foambubble.github.io/foam/recipes/write-your-notes-i...
Some times ago I started to use Obsidian.md to manage my Knowledge. Then I read Essentialism by Greg McKeown, and I suddenly realized that embracing Essentialism also means to stop having a macro-complexity to manage. I stopped using Obsidian.md and now I just have some .md file for the few essential things for me.
This just applies to me, when my efforts are not directed towards making things and adapting on the fly, I tend to get sucked into thinking that I need a ton of knowledge to make things which leads me to find out systems which can help me manage that volume of knowledge, ironically and laughably before gaining that knowledge. Putting the cart before the horse !!!
I then go back to making things and I think these systems may be useful for certain styles of learning.
Does anyone here have similar experiences/thoughts?
edit: fixed idiom typo!!!
Why does this keep making HN headlines? The Zettelkasten thing is really nice but it keeps coming up as a 'new discovery' every few weeks. Personally I don't have the attention to detail for it so I'll never do it.
Not everyone sees every post! someone in another comment literally said: “I hadn’t heard of Zettelkasten until today”.