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My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

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Re: My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

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Post by joegahona »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #50
GekkePrutser wrote: post #32

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.

I seem to notice these posts every month or so and there's some new tool recommended (Foam! Roam! Obsidian! zotero!) and I'll download said tool, try it out for a few minutes and think "Hmm, ok, that might be neat" and then promptly forget about it.

I thought you were being silly with “Foam,” but it really is a thing...

Re: My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

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Post by whimsicalism »

shakezula wrote: post #46
inakarmacoma wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can give it a try with obsidian.md

+1 for Obsidian. It’s the best note taking app I’ve yet found, and I’ve tried almost all of them at this point.

Definitely the best - I only wish it could sync with my ipad!

Re: My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

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Post by kurko »

Bakary wrote: post #58

There's the notorious productivity swamp that is caused by the obsession with optimizing productivity without thinking about the actual purpose behind it. This is multiplied by the ease and incentive of creating and publicizing productivity software and articles that are consumed by people in a perpetual state of insatisfaction. The result is a psychologically advanced form of procrastination and a futile attempt at…

> To-do lists are for things that aren't a real priority, otherwise you would be giving them your full attention and the tracking would be unnecessary.

I disagree with this bit, but perhaps it’s because “real priority” is vague. To-do lists offload tasks from memory to ensure we don’t forget them. It’s totally possible for something to be a “real priority” (whatever definition) and someone forgetting about it.

Don’t confuse priorities with memorization.

Re: My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

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Post by vhanda »

spences10 wrote: post #3
kritiko wrote: post #2

I’m fascinated by the rise of the Zettelkasten concept among hackers (I don’t think I’ve seen it anywhere mainstream yet) and the fundraising that Notion & Roam have accomplished. Based on the title of the post, I assume you are inspired by Tiago Forte? I’d be interested to hear more about how your notes are organized and what they help you accomplish. The idea of moving notes across 4 platforms as described in this…

For me it was about getting the notes in one place where I could manage them as I would in my text editor. I always got frustrated with the implementation of Markdown and no being able to manipulate the text as I would in a .md document. I have lost some functionality that Notion had, like for Kanban boards and such but being able to manipulate the plain text is where I want to be. The only downside I have really is…

Disclaimer: GitJournal Author.

I've started using GitJournal a bit with my tablet, though it's a really old one. I would like to make GitJournal more tablet friendly in the future. If you happen to try to it, please feel free to to tell me about the issues. I'll be happy to fix them.

PS: For markdown + kanban, imdone.io looks interesting. I haven't tried it out though.

Re: My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

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Post by dmje »

I’m finding dokuwiki absolutely outstanding for notes and, well, all the things. I’ve avoided it for years and years because - frankly - it looks bloody awful. Then I downloaded, added a bootstrap theme, fiddled with some css, and it’s now running perfectly. I’ve got it on my Synology NAS which makes it backed up, and all my everything is now searchable using their indexing and search tools. I’ve installed a MD extension so have an exit if need be. I’ve also used some editors - Typora for example - and it’s all pretty good. Obsidian didn’t seem to like the folder structure but I didn’t try that hard, I’m guessing it could be made to work.

Re: My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

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Post by tomcam »

lostintangent wrote: post #38

If folks are interested in this workflow, but want to auto-sync their changes to a GitHub repo, I’ve been maintaining a VS Code extension for managing code snippets, and notes/Roam-like wikis, and it includes full Foam interop: https://aka.ms/GistPad . https://twitter.com/lostintangent/status/1282047676377231360... https://twitter.com/lostintangent/status/1334225746751983618... https://twitter.com/lostintangent/statu…

I want your job! Looks like you’re having way too much fun.

Re: My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

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Post by 5cents »

abetusk wrote: post #51

For me, the idea is sound but the implementation always seems so cumbersome. I want something that separates the data from the display as much as possible, has an easy 'note taking' and has an easy install. One problem I always encounter is that if the interface to add notes has too much friction, I stop using it pretty quickly. Anyway, so I created something over the weekend called 'notenox' [0]. It creates a a JSON…

Have you heard of Tiddlywiki [0] (also mentioned above [1])? Although not command line, it is a single file and supports exporting/importing your notes as json, and offers a lot of flexibility

[0] https://tiddlywiki.com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804473

Re: My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

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Post by armatav »

Bakary wrote: post #58

There's the notorious productivity swamp that is caused by the obsession with optimizing productivity without thinking about the actual purpose behind it. This is multiplied by the ease and incentive of creating and publicizing productivity software and articles that are consumed by people in a perpetual state of insatisfaction. The result is a psychologically advanced form of procrastination and a futile attempt at…

This is one of the best posts I’ve seen on this forum.
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