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Why is HN obsessed with Zettelkasten?

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Re: Why is HN obsessed with Zettelkasten?

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rektide wrote: post #2

There's not a ton of visible competition for interlinked-style note-taking. Zettelkasten has become a kind of big tent recognizable name for vaguely-wiki-like heavily-cross-referencing journalling/note taking.

I think of it as TV tropes-style note-taking

Re: Why is HN obsessed with Zettelkasten?

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whateveracct wrote: post #4
rektide wrote: post #2

There's not a ton of visible competition for interlinked-style note-taking. Zettelkasten has become a kind of big tent recognizable name for vaguely-wiki-like heavily-cross-referencing journalling/note taking.

I think of it as TV tropes-style note-taking

I've called TVTropes the great index of all human behavior before, so this seems somewhat like an honorific.

Everything is connected, so much behavior is cross-culturally human, and TVTropes in particular is a great uniter of plot, a collector of how wide & differently a common theme or plot can be created. It links together so many moving pictures, identifies underlying factors.

I haven't particular thought of Z as so all-encompassing, so unifying, before.

Re: Why is HN obsessed with Zettelkasten?

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Post by AA-BA-94-2A-56 »

elisharobinson wrote: post #8
etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #6

Hacker News really really likes all things related to personal note-taking. See also, emacs org-mode. Personally, I find it pretty low quality intellectual content for this site.

as opposed to being a marketing tool for YC

Which begs the question, what do you all consider to be high quality content for this site?
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