[HN Gopher] A tour to my Zettelkasten note clusters
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A tour to my Zettelkasten note clusters
Author : tslmy
Score : 143 points
Date : 2022-01-19 16:42 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| oxff wrote:
| I will always run into these threads to state that: these tools
| will not help you until you yourself have organized your
| thoughts! You can't have messy idea of a subject topic or some
| category of ideas and "just" use Zettelkasten or some other
| method or tool to unfuck it.
|
| And now when that's done, I just use a set of markdown files and
| some kind of Zettelkasten indexing system.
|
| e. also this graph understanding of ZK is misunderstood way to do
| ZK.
| tomerbd wrote:
| Do you actually read the notes you write in obsidian or is it
| just a waste of time?
| tslmy wrote:
| I do. Many posts on my blog (https://lmy.medium.com/) are
| brainchildren from those notes.
| softwarebeware wrote:
| Thanks for the article! It's interesting to see how your notes
| cluster and what you can glean from them. I have a single file,
| people.md, that I keep important notes about 1-on-1's I've had
| with others in.
|
| Also: I'm a big fan of customized personal note-taking using open
| standards. I didn't intend to do this, but somehow over time I
| ended up rolling my own note-taking approach and "software" (if
| you can call a shell script that) which is too lightweight to
| have any kind of visualization piece. If you're interested in
| reading about that journey, it's found at
| https://dev.to/scottshipp/an-amazing-note-taking-system-with...
| xenodium wrote:
| Org mode is very dear in this space (to us Emacs users anyway).
| I'm an iPhone user and was missing quick access to my content
| (view/add/edit) while on the go. Org is a rich markup, but I've
| been slowly chipping at my own iOS app with https://plainorg.com.
|
| Compared to markdown, our non-Emacs org options are few but here
| are others I know about:
|
| https://beorg.app
|
| https://braintool.org
|
| https://flathabits.com (I author this one too)
|
| https://organice.200ok.ch
|
| https://orgro.org
|
| http://orgzly.com
|
| Karl Voit also has a great effort going to advocate org outside
| of Emacs and documents some of the tools at
| https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool...
|
| edit: formatting
| tconfrey wrote:
| Worth mentioning here that LogSeq can work with markdown _or_
| org-mode files. In my personal setup one of my LogSeq nodes
| points to my BrainTool.org file which holds all my bookmarks,
| web-resource pointers and associated notes. This way I can
| bounce between working in Chrome, emacs and LogSeq all
| referencing the same underlying data model. (With Orgzly for a
| read-only view on my phone.)
|
| See also org-roam (https://www.orgroam.com/) - an emacs-native
| bidirectional linking PKM solution.
| sp33der89 wrote:
| Love the org support in LogSeq! Probably the deciding factor
| why I chose it over Dendron(which is great as well).
|
| LogSeq also has experimental Android support:
| https://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases/tag/0.5.8
| 1MachineElf wrote:
| Thank you so much for pointing out upcoming Android
| support! That's a huge factor for me.
|
| Which of those downloads is an Android app? I didn't see an
| APK, which is usually how they come.
|
| Edit: Nevermind. I see they link to the nightly release
| where a working version can be obtained[0]. Running it now.
|
| [0] https://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases/tag/nightly
| drcode wrote:
| How useful to people find these "cluster graphs" to be, which are
| so popular in zettelkasten/pkms systems? It seems to me it would,
| instead, be more helpful to just have a table of the most
| connected nodes, sorted by # of connections.
| chaoz_ wrote:
| Interesting idea with "Personal CRM". Do you feel like it helped
| to improve your relationship with close friends or family?
| bikingbismuth wrote:
| This reminds me of my personal Wiki that I use to keep track of
| information at work (I also use Obsidian for this). I start a
| daily note in the morning and write everything in there until the
| end of the day, where I have some time set aside to chopping up
| the information into the appropriate pages. It took a bit for
| this system to pay off, but when I was writing employee reviews
| and co-worker feedback, it was almost effortless. I have started
| to accumulate a critical mass of information that is giving me
| little hints of insights I hope to be able to leverage this year.
|
| I am still working on actually implementing a personal ZK system
| in Obsidian or on paper (I am looking forward to Scott Scheper's
| book about Antinets). I manage people and write software for a
| living, but I don't really write articles or papers (which ZK
| seems a good fit for). I just finished "How to Take Smart Notes"
| by Sonke Ahrens, and it has inspired me to take another pass at
| starting a ZK for the benefits of greater understanding and
| insight about the variety of topics I read about.
| nja wrote:
| > until the end of the day, where I have some time set aside to
| chopping up the information into the appropriate pages
|
| Your way of working sounds wonderful, but I find that I would
| probably struggle with this part. How are you able to define
| the end of your day and ensure you have such time marked off? I
| have tried this but always end up getting sucked into endless
| other issues/problems/etc and basically passing out at some
| point, only to wake up the next day to dive right in -- no time
| to be able to do that sort of retrospective note-munging...
|
| (this is not exclusive to trying to find retrospective time; it
| applies to things like finding time for food/dinner, blocking
| out vacation time, or other things, too. work never ends!!)
| pseudoramble wrote:
| Not OP, but I feel compelled to answer. I have lots of my own
| thoughts and feelings on the topic. I'll leave it at two
| framing thoughts:
|
| If you literally can't find time to eat, how will you even be
| able to function to execute work, let alone anything higher
| level than that? I know you probably didn't mean literally no
| time to eat, but my broad point is how can you work hard
| indefinitely without caring about your physical self
| reliably?
|
| If your workload will never end, what exactly are you racing
| against by working as hard as you can every day? Even if you
| 100% everything for one day, you're guaranteed to have just
| as much or more the next day, right? What are you gaining by
| battling every day until you give out?
| tra3 wrote:
| You gotta schedule it. I do it first thing in the morning, I
| have a template checklist that goes through everything so I
| don't have to think:
|
| - [ ] write for 5 minutes
|
| - [ ] check inbox
|
| - [ ] process yesterday
|
| - [ ] schedule today
| edu wrote:
| Sorry about being snarky, but you had time to post this
| comment.
| lornajane wrote:
| I'm a big fan of the evergreen note-taking approach, but my
| diagram is nothing like as pretty as this one. Apparently I don't
| link between pages much.
| tslmy wrote:
| There's no such thing as "pretty diagrams", lornajane. I
| believe you simply has boarder interests in life which
| inherently make inter-links less realistic.
| ar_lan wrote:
| Aren't Evergreen notes effectively just the Zettelkasten?
| uptownfunk wrote:
| Capturing notes in a decent UI seems to be a solved problem and
| there are a lot of tools out there for the job. Searching through
| a lot of notes also seems to be a solved problem.
|
| However, the structured organization of a large collection of
| notes (think thousands to tens of thousands of notecards in
| boxes..) as well as the finding connections between seemingly
| unrelated notes doesn't seem to be a solved problem. Does anyone
| know of any solutions in this space? Zettelkasten (per my
| understanding) seems to make this manual on part of the note-
| taker, but (1) this is super time consuming and (2) very hard to
| keep track of all the note cards as the collection grows over
| time.
| etherio wrote:
| I'm trying to do that with a new project that uses Natural
| Language Processing. (see gif at
| https://twitter.com/uzpg_/status/1483140905943146502)
|
| Basically it generates an automated graph of relations between
| your notes and tries to find which "ideas" group them.
|
| I'll probably post the Show HN soon once I make it public!
| uptownfunk wrote:
| Cool! I really think this could be huge. Finding connections
| between ideas is basically the genesis of innovation. Would
| be very interested to see/learn about your approach.
| stephendause wrote:
| I think part of the point of Zettelkasten is that by manually
| making the links yourself, you are forming the associations in
| your brain, which is part of the learning, thinking, and
| remembering process.
|
| I am just now learning about it from the book How to Take Smart
| Notes, so I could be off, but that's part of the idea. With
| that said, I think what you suggest could possibly be a cool
| supplement or replacement.
| Jeff_Brown wrote:
| I maintain an offensively big knowledge graph, and I feel
| like you're both right -- building those connections manually
| is both mind-expanding and somewhat labor intensive.
|
| If I have a conversation with X and discover they're an
| expert about Y, learning fact Z, I like to record Z as a
| file, and link it to both X and Y. That forces me to keep X
| and Y as entities in the graph. Which, if I care about them,
| is worth doing.
|
| The real beauty of making those connections is the act of
| classifying something can cause you to explicitly recognize
| what concepts it is related to, and formulate precisely what
| the connection is.
|
| The real pain point is knowing what your future self will
| wish your past self kept a file on. Some ideas (generally
| more social science-related ones, but also something like a
| bug involving the interaction of a lot of disparate
| technologies) are so cross-cutting that I'd need to make five
| parent concepts to file them "completely", and often then I'd
| like to file those parent concepts further. I generally
| don't.
| Jeff_Brown wrote:
| I used to use Semantic Synchrony, for which the creation
| and linking processes are much faster. Every little
| keypress counts. My SmSn graph is as a result much more
| connected than my org-roam graph. I still refer to it, but
| try not to build it out much, because the Git review
| process is so time consuming. For me org-roam's killer
| feature is that version control is so easy.
| supperburg wrote:
| beepbooptheory wrote:
| supperburg wrote:
| smegsicle wrote:
| In the US, karaoke exists as a form of standup comedy.
| tslmy wrote:
| I'm very confused. Karaoke definitely exists in China. Maybe
| they go by a different name: KTVs.
|
| Yes. Stand-up comedies are also huge in China:
|
| - "Single-standing Comedy" in Beijing:
| http://www.danlirencomedy.cn/ and
| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeN0myzkjm2BDjaBZ5C3Qng
|
| - "No-name Comedy" in Nanjing: https://www.wumingxiju.com/
|
| - Fun Factory in Shanghai:
| https://www.linkedin.com/company/%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E7%AC%91...
|
| Cunningham's law at work.
| supperburg wrote:
| hadjian wrote:
| I use org-mode, just FYI. I was wondering however: everyone
| shares how they store things, but how often or even how do you
| query your knowledge base?
|
| There are often tips for creating habit to write down things ,,at
| the end of the day" or such. But can anyone describe some habits
| when to consume this stuff? I'd be interested. Thx.
| galfarragem wrote:
| I'll bite. My answer to the "Million dollar question": _How to
| make useful notes?_
|
| - Notes are not "write-only": progressively summarize and tree-
| shake your notes each time you iterate them. You'll leverage
| your excitement instead of forcing discipline.
|
| - Ideally, notes are organized by project, not by category. It
| can be a catalyst for action and reviews.
|
| - Only store things that surprise you, not stuff you already
| know.
| programmer_dude wrote:
| Some things you "know" today may surprise you "tomorrow". I
| have a massive collection of notes. I am constantly surprised
| by what I used to know and how much I have forgotten. Such is
| life I guess.
| bachmeier wrote:
| I'm using PouchDB to query the small stuff that comes at me
| during the day like tasks, links, reminders, etc. One simple
| html file plus a little Javascript (even I can write that) is
| all it takes. I've tried more elaborate approaches, but they
| never lasted.
| hadjian wrote:
| Thanks for the answers. I think I realize that there is a
| difference between a todo list (have to do it) and a knowledge
| base (let's organize what I've learned).
|
| The former I also do with org-mode and then use the archiving
| feature for things I put to DONE.
|
| I oftentimes do the latter, but don't actually use it that
| often. In college, I used to summarize text-books, which helped
| me memorize my learnings. After finishing the book, by chapter
| summary served as a shorter version of the book. Was quite
| effective.
|
| Haven't been successful in replicating this for work, though.
| tconfrey wrote:
| I've also been a plain emacs then org-mode note taker for a
| number of years. I keep a log.org file with dated items
| containing notes from meetings and major project actions of the
| day. I generally have my laptop open during meetings making
| notes in realtime. After a meeting, or whenever, I'll tag
| things and note any follow ups, TODOs or things to remember.
|
| I have a terrible memory for proper nouns but I can generally
| remember enough context so that a quick backward search in my
| notes buffer can get me back to the name of the person, team,
| customer, project, action item etc that I'm looking for. (EG it
| probably has this tag, or it came up during my meeting with
| Riley, or last Monday, or during the sprint planning meeting
| etc). I'm now fast enough at this that I can often start
| talking and do a search in time to mention the 'thing' by the
| time I need to refer to it.
|
| I see this model as somewhat different than the more
| reflective, bi-directional link driven, PKM tools being
| discussed here. Its a great feeder into such a system (IMO)
| where more active curation can take place. Plus even if there's
| never any curation I still have all my todo's, calendaring etc
| accessible to org's agenda features!
| reidjs wrote:
| You need to pick a directory/file structure that works for you.
| Some people (including myself in the past) use a massive single
| append only markdown file, so querying is as easy as CMD + F.
|
| I realized I was almost never editing/updating old notes within
| the massive append-only file, so now I have a at-most-one-
| folder-deep directory with somewhat descriptive file names. I
| still have some append-only type files, mainly in the form of
| logs. If I can't think of a name for the file, I just name it
| with today's date and try to put it into the "best" folder.
| Sometimes it's ambiguous where the best place is, so I usually
| put these files in the root directory until they make sense to
| put somewhere else.
| choward wrote:
| A little of topic but I tried Obsidian out even though it isn't
| "free" software. I could still use it without the paid features.
| Then one day I went looking for the source and discovered it
| wasn't open source. That's when I stopped using it.
|
| There was discussion on open sourcing it but I'm not holding my
| breath. Does anyone have any additional info on this?
|
| https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/1...
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598
| tslmy wrote:
| I am completely unaware of that. Thanks for bringing it up!
| This may tilt my decision in choosing a note-taking platform.
| [deleted]
| black_puppydog wrote:
| That's the _first_ thing I check for _any_ system that would,
| if adopted, become a life-long thing. Zettelkasten is supposed
| to be exactly that: an ever-growing collection of linked notes,
| growing more useful the longer you stick with it.
|
| I never understood why anyone would accept linking this sort of
| system to any third party, no matter how sound their business
| model, no matter how much trust you may put into the
| individuals running the company.
| groby_b wrote:
| Slightly different take: OSS is the _second_ thing I check.
|
| The first one is data export. If it's a closed component that
| still generates value _and I can capture that value via
| export_ , OSS becomes a tie-breaker between otherwise
| equivalent tools.
|
| Obsidian is an editor on top of a bunch of markdown files. If
| they go away, meh. The world is not running out of Markdown
| text editors. Sync is an add-on feature, so I can sidestep
| potential privacy concerns there.
|
| A working system always beats waiting for a perfect system.
| jrm4 wrote:
| FWIW - I'm a huge FOSS guy, but I went ahead and paid for
| Obsidian because it looked so good and it at least feels as if
| "saving in pure Markdown" is darn near equivalent, or at least
| a reasonable non-free alternative experiment; i.e. I'm not sure
| if this is as good as FOSS, but it's interesting enough for me
| to throw a few dollars at to see what happens.
|
| In theory, seems like a fine idea. But for, me, in practice, I
| went back to https://zim-wiki.org (like I pretty much always
| do.) Not exactly sure what that says about it all, or if it
| much matters.
|
| One thought though is that Obsidian feels "overloaded," almost
| as if it wasn't allowed to grow naturally like Zim did?
| rjzzleep wrote:
| I have used zim in the past, and I didn't like zettelkasten
| because of the autogenerated magic.
|
| I also just learned about obsidian for the first time in this
| thread and it looks pretty impressive, but I do agree that
| the onboarding is a bit hard and all the plugins while
| impressive are also a bit overwhelming.
|
| But it's interesting that the core plugins including things
| like slides which is definitely something that is great to
| have
| Naac wrote:
| I mentioned this in another comment, but you should check out
| tiddlywiki[0] with the mind map plugin[1]
|
| [0] https://tiddlywiki.com/
|
| [1] https://github.com/felixhayashi/TW5-TiddlyMap
| drhayes9 wrote:
| My favorite example of a Zettelkasten in Tiddlywiki is this
| one: https://zettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com
|
| The author also has a site called "Grok TiddlyWiki" that
| helped me tremendously when starting out with TW:
| https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/
|
| I use TiddlyWiki and love it. Because TW's UI and
| functionality is based on individual "tiddlers" within the
| wiki (just like your notes), adding functionality becomes
| part of the wiki itself -- a fusion I like compared to other
| plain-text note tools that keep the note-taking and note-
| storing separate.
| grumblepeet wrote:
| Can definitely recommend Tiddlywiki. Ive just spent several
| weeks implementing a mini ZettelKasten using Tiddlywiki. It
| is created in 'exploded' mode in NodeJS and then a script
| runs to re-assemble it into a single html file (with the
| images in a separate folder) and then I push it to GitHub
| where it is published on to a personal domain. It is visible
| here: https://chloetiddlykasten.chloegilbert.me
|
| I used the template (TZK) created by Soren Bjornstad to build
| it.
| Macha wrote:
| Before I used Obsidian, I used VS code and a folder of markdown
| notes. In general, if Obsidian went evil, I could take my
| existing note setup and go back to that, much as I started with
| it when I used Obsidian. I'd lose some of the nice todo list
| setup I have but I know I could write a custom program to
| replicate that and if it bothered me enough I could even figure
| out how to write VS code plugins.
|
| So while I'd prefer an open source solution, I'm not in a huge
| rush, though I am keeping an eye on logseq's evolution.
| bachmeier wrote:
| Logseq is somewhat different from Obsidian, since it's an
| outliner. IMO Dendron would be a better replacement for
| Obsidian. Particularly so if you're already using VS Code.
| tekacs wrote:
| So Logseq [1] is open (AGPLv3), also markdown with no lock in,
| more powerful in some key ways than Obsidian (it has block
| links, which I'll let others expound on the benefit of or edit
| this when I'm at my desk).
|
| The main thing it's lacking for now is good mobile support, for
| which folks still use Obsidian mobile...
|
| [1]: https://logseq.com/
| Sugimot0 wrote:
| It's lacking _good_ support for mobile, but the mobile app is
| usable, and in active development. I use it daily with no
| issues. It mostly just lacks a no-frills setup for syncing
| notes on multiple devices, but they are developing a
| subscription for backup /sync hosted by them (I use
| syncthing, but others have used iCloud and google drive).
|
| To build on the features mentioned there's also:
|
| - A community marketplace for plugins and themes
|
| - Simple customization and extensibility
|
| - A builtin PDF viewer with highlighting and linking
| nopenopenopeno wrote:
| The builtin pdf viewer is terrible, though. It doesn't even
| have search.
| lornajane wrote:
| This is a really good point, I am using Obsidian but I feel OK
| about the proprietary-ness of it because at the end of the day,
| it's a nice tool to read my well-organised folder of markup
| files with. It's possible I live to regret this ...
| riffic wrote:
| it doesn't need to be open source for me.
|
| you could look at vscode pkms plugins like Dendron or Foam.
| for_i_in_range wrote:
| There are other downsides with Obsidian as well. The thought
| development Luhmann experienced is watered down in the
| instantiation of Zettelkasten that obsidian provides. If you're
| interested in an alternative approach, I've been using the
| Zettelkasten system the way Luhmann did for the past year.
| Here's a behind the scenes look at writing a book using a
| physical Zettelkasten: https://youtu.be/fRgIX4azYOs
| igorkraw wrote:
| Could you be more specific what's missing?
| for_i_in_range wrote:
| It's not analog (writing by hand and doing things the hard
| way pays off. It did for Luhmann and continues to do so for
| many others who use notecards). Second, numeric-alpha
| addresses per card with strict character count
| restrictions. Third, tree-like structure for branching
| thoughts infinitely. Fourth, an index that forces one to
| neuro-imprint keyterms in their mind to act as cues for
| thought. All of these create a unique structure Luhmann
| communicated with. Obsidian = bubbles that connect markdown
| files. Completely different concept. It's not a
| zettelkasten even though people have hijacked the term and
| ensconced it with digital notetaking apps. This is my
| opinion.
| kd5bjo wrote:
| Obsidian is just a tool, like notecards are; you set your
| own process and organization. With the exception of
| handwriting in place of typing, it's entirely possible to
| set up an Obsidian workflow with all of the properties
| you list here.
|
| My Obsidian vault, for example, is organized into 2
| parts: Ad-hoc notes and an organized zettelkasten. This
| latter part is a single flat directory with Luhmann-style
| alphanumeric hierarchical addresses as file names. My
| first task every day is to split up the previous day's
| ad-hoc notes and file them in the zettelkasten, which
| naturally leads to a review of the existing material as I
| look for the proper place in the sequence.
| thi2 wrote:
| Is there an opensource/selfhosted alternative to obsidian?
| Naac wrote:
| You should take a look at tiddlywiki, which has a mind map
| plugin[0]
|
| [0] https://github.com/felixhayashi/TW5-TiddlyMap
| McSido wrote:
| It might not be a direct alternative, since it's not using
| markdown files directly, but I really like Trilium notes
| (https://github.com/zadam/trilium).
|
| It's open source, you can selfhost it and you can write your
| own scripts in JS to really make it your own.
| nopenopenopeno wrote:
| I didn't like moving to Obsidian from Joplin for this reason,
| but Obsidian is so much more useable because it stores
| everything in a regular file hierarchy. It also has a better
| UI. And above all, I absolutely hate Joplin's "every note is a
| folder" approach.
| deckard1 wrote:
| > absolutely hate Joplin's "every note is a folder" approach
|
| that's not true. They have notebooks and sub-notebooks, which
| form a tree on the left. To the right of that is a list of
| notes within that notebook.
| nopenopenopeno wrote:
| The result is the same. Every sub-notebook is a notebook
| that can contain more sub-notebooks, but there is no such
| thing as a mere folder that can be placed inside another
| folder without also creating a confusing space where notes
| can hide inside the notebook but not alongside its sub-
| notebooks.
|
| The other way to interpret it is just a very poorly planned
| UI that uses separate panes to list folders and notes that
| are located in the same hierarchy position. Either way,
| it's madness.
| kstrauser wrote:
| That bothers me, too. On the other hand, I haven't found a good
| Free replacement for it, and there's zero lock-in: its database
| is just a folder of Markdown files. If it stopped working
| tomorrow, I'd still have all of my content in a convenient
| format, ready to start using with another app.
| npretto wrote:
| There's also obsidian-export[1] that converts the few things
| that are not plain markdown (`[[links]` and `![[links]]`).
|
| To be honest, obsidian not being open source doesn't bother
| me too much, what is important to me is that I own the data
| and that it is in a fairly common format so i can move it to
| another software in 10 years. An open source software with a
| weird binary format to save the data will probably do more
| harm in the long term
|
| [1] https://crates.io/crates/obsidian-export
| kstrauser wrote:
| Same for me. I wrote a little Python script to copy my
| Obsidian files into a set of Hugo files, then publish them.
| Proprietary or not, it's so easy to work with the files
| that things like this are possible. It's _my_ data in my
| favorite format, ready for use with all the existing text
| manipulation goodies I already know. There 's not much to
| improve on there.
|
| Plug: I wrote a couple of other scripts and put them on
| GitHub[1]. If you use Drafts and its "Quick Journaling"
| action group[2], then `process-notes` will look awfully
| familiar.
|
| [1] https://github.com/kstrauser/glassknife [2]
| https://actions.getdrafts.com/g/1Sd
| edu wrote:
| You could try Dendron [1], a VS Code extension similar to
| Obsidian, and in some ways more powerful (schemas for data).
|
| 1. https://www.dendron.so/
| chrisweekly wrote:
| Athens Research (an OSS "clone" - sort of - of Roam Research)
| might check all your boxes. I love Obsidian.
| kiba wrote:
| I would be interested in the random sample of these notes. It
| felt like the author gave a guided tour of the house without
| somehow showing the rooms.
| justusthane wrote:
| Likewise. I've tried and failed to pick up Zettelkasten, mostly
| because I can't really grok the idea of atomic notes and what
| they're supposed to look like. I'd love to see someone else's.
| input_sh wrote:
| This one usually gets thrown around as a good example:
| https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes
|
| Here if you want more:
| https://github.com/KasperZutterman/Second-Brain
| kstrauser wrote:
| I've read "Taking Smart Notes", and Zettelkasten seems like
| an amazing solution for a problem I don't have. It seems to
| be geared around writing longer works out of notes you
| collect, and if I were doing that, I think I'd be all-in on
| Zettelkasten. But I'm not. A wiki-like setup is far more
| valuable to me.
|
| I have a daily note with "Work" and "Personal" sections. As I
| go through the day, I add entries in those sections:
|
| - Worked on the [[Foo project]] with [[Joe]]
|
| - Called [[Mom]] and asked her about the [[Meatloaf recipe]]
|
| - Helped [[Jane]] with the [[Qux problem]]
|
| This morning it's very easy to see what I was doing
| yesterday, and have the context for all the mischief I was up
| to. Also, when I open "Foo project" and look at its
| backlinks, I get a timeline of when I'd worked on it, and can
| see what other things I was working on at the same time.
| Being able to instantly recreate that context is incredibly
| valuable, and it's very lightweight for me. I'm not going out
| of my way to associate "Foo project" with "Joe", but still
| end up with a graph view that has a lot of notes linking to
| both of those notes.
| tslmy wrote:
| Good idea, kiba! I might do that for my next post.
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