“If you keep hundreds of ideas at your fingertips that you’ve collected over decades… you get an unbelievable amount of inspiration from just randomly looking at 25 of those ideas every now and again and thinking to yourself, is there a way they work together in a new and interesting way?”

- Adam Alter

https://news.uchicago.edu/feeling-stuck-heres-how-achieve-breakthrough-adam-alter

omg, I figured markdown #zettelkasten. The Folgezettel numbering just goes into an attribute, and this way it doesn’t fuck up referencing. It makes my OCD happy!

/me runs around, panicking that note taking finally makes sense.

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Trying to decide: Obsidian.md or Logseq — which one is the ultimate tool for knowledge management and note-taking?

Both have their strengths, but I’m curious:
Which do you use and why?
Pros, cons, hidden features — let’s discuss!

Realised that I much prefer #Logseq for my fleeting notes, i.e. my #CommonPlaceBook. I tried using #Obsidian for a while, but I much prefer the Logseq bullet point way of doing things.

I'm not giving up on Obsidian, far from it. It'll be for my permanent notes and where I do much of my #writing.

If this means I'll have two files, of exactly the same notes (but in different formats), so be it.

Bob Doto on Note-Taking – A No-Nonsense Guide to Writing with Purpose
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While the most famous book about starting a Zettelkasten may be How to Take Smart Notes it's not necessarily the best book on the topic. Valuable entries have come from
https://curtismchale.ca/2025/03/30/bob-doto-on-note-taking-a-no-nonsense-guide-to-writing-with-purpose/
#BookClub #zettelkasten

#fedilz https://www.zotero.org/

Yay or nay?

I’m sure there are some #pkm people in here that use a digital #zettelkasten. How do you solve "where to file a note" problem? Let me elaborate.

I don’t use any IDs because it seemed that it's a paper process problem. At the same time, when I wrap up a note I don’t immediately know which ones to link it to to add it to the graph. Paper apprach solves this by filing it under the closest relevant ID.

If I don’t link the note immediately it's effectively lost forever, because it's outside of the graph, it most probably has some random title (titles are hard!) and it is in a folder with 400 other notes.

Maybe I should keep such notes as Fleeting until I can link them into the permanent graph? For me it created a problem of notes being fleeting for too long because there's no place to anchor then either.

I **suppose** that IDs solve this problem because you can always apply at least the "soft" structure of ID topics. But is there a better way?

@pkb @pkms

Can you make too many notes? This guy did. #zettelkasten #notetaking #pkm https://writingslowly.com/2025/03/24/lord-acton-took-too-many.html

Zettelkasten on the CLI

Let's take a look at my Zettelkasten notetaking workflow on the Linux Command Line. Trust me, it's simple.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/03/24/zettelkasten-on-the-cli/

#productivity #notetaking #linux #cli #commandline indieweb #blogging #smallweb #personalweb #tech #technology #zettelkasten

Anyone use the #Zettelkasten method of note-taking and knowledge management? Stumbled across it and I'm quite curious about it. I read widely across a lot of topics. No longer in grad school but having a way to organize and cross-reference is really appealing.

https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/

148,000 notes! Inside Georges Didi-Huberman’s monumental archive https://writingslowly.com/2025/03/20/the-dance-of-joyful-knowledge.html
#Zettelkasten #NoteTaking #KnowledgeManagement #PersonalKnowledgeManagement #PKM #archives

A System for Writing – Bob Doto
Bob Doto's, A System for writing is a good entry into the world of note-taking books. He is concise and direct while still hitting all the high points I think need to be hit to create a good practice of taking notes and producing writing/content from them.

https://curtismchale.ca/book/a-system-for-writing-bob-doto/

#amWriting a post on lazy language design. The hardest problem is not to write it—I can churn out a lot in a relatively short time. (Despite being lazy.)

The hardest problem is to build a (preferably acyclic) graph of all sections so that there's not too many dependencies and the flow is least interrupted by back/forward links.

Uuuuuuuugh. Now I get #Zettelkasten folks—having my writing as a bunch of "cards" would be nice indeed. But oh well—we have no reasonable visual/graph code editors, and I doubt we'd have these for writing either.