Re:Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)
by ColinWright on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:08AM
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I've been using a ZK-like thing since the mid-90s, so it's very much a "roll your own" solution. Over the past 12 months or so I've started to try to de-couple it from the specifics of my setup so I can share it, but it's proving difficult.
It's essentially a wiki, but it's how I use it that makes the difference. A true ZK requires a conversation. You take notes, but then you spend time inter-weaving them into the ZK. Most people use note-taking systems as, well, note-taking systems, and never return to make the connections between the notes. Hence they get lost.
Here are my thoughts about that "conversation":
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/DiscDAG.py?DiscussionID=Z...
There's a link in there to take you out of "Neighbourhood Mode" if you want to see the whole thing at once.
I tend to either remember how/where to find the information again or the actual thing. So with podcasts I will either remind myself that I can't easily reference it and therefore remember the lesson, or sometimes I will write it down later in the day.
What do you use for your Zettelkasten? I still haven't found a notebook software that I actually like, so my notes are kinda spread between a few different solutions.