I’m not a scholar in any of the PKM/PARA/etc approaches. I have some familiarity with Zettelkasten, enough to want to speculate about a novel set in a world where AI has become a settled part of the landscape. Diehard holdouts use simple tools to apply weaponized data against would-be tyrants, fighting enshittification from within. Unfortunately, like COVID, toxic data leaks out of their rag-tag fleet of aging RVs.
But, returning to topic, the idea that everything done in a PKM must adhere to ironclad methods is not attractive, particularly since alternative categorization can coexist in modern note-taking software.
I agree, do what you want. Bonus points for not orphaning ideas or facts.
That’s an important point. A lot of people seem to assume that if you use Obsidian, you have to adopt something like the zettelkasten method. The merits of zettelkastens have been oversold, IMO: « Luhmann used it and wrote a lot. So you should use it too. » You can easily find more important thinkers and scientists than Luhmann who used good old paper notebooks, people like Darwin and Newton for example.
It’s a (fictitious) blog, written at the beginning in C20th English, but as the blog progresses, he moves the version of the English back another 1000 years – so the second section is as though it were written in 1900, the third in 1800, and so on back to 1000AD, by which time it’s almost completely unintelligible to non-experts.
It’s a lovely conceit, and I – emphatically a layperson in these matters – found it really interesting to watch the language change before your eyes.
Pardon my obtuseness, but I don’t quite understand what you mean. When you opened an attachment (an image?) in Obsidian — how? What happened? Genuine question, as a newbie to Obsidian I’d be keen to understand this. Thanks.
Well said. I don’t engage too much about the methods especially influencers suggest, and I create folders according to my needs. The reasons for using Obsidian is not that it’s powerful or variety of plug-ins. It’s the basic search workable, and it’s easier to turn drafts into documentation than Apple Notes. I still use it like what I do on Apple Notes.
