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Day 1 of #zettelkasten method with

. The method is definitely pushing my thinking. This would have been a single linear-entry in my old way of note taking, but now they are reusable “atomized” entries. Each line is a connection between these entries.

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Athul Sudheesh

@AthulSudheesh

· Aug 10, 2020

Thanks for sharing this piece @Michielstock!! Just realized that I was only halfway there with TiddlyWiki while reading "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sonke Ahrens. Also trying out @obsdmd. twitter.com/Michielstock/s…

Nadja Bester

@NadjaBester

Aug 12, 2020

See you're a Tiddlywiki user. I know it's been only like a day, but are you finding Obsidian more suitable for ZK? Trying to decide between them (well, and Zettlr) and I fear I'm busy driving myself insane. I've used Obs and Zettlr, not TW just yet. But Neuron also looks good 😭

I checked Neuron.

definitely has an upper hand compared to Neuron and TW in terms of friendly UI. In TW, you need to learn TW commands for enjoying many functionalities.

@obsdmd

is built ground up with ZK philosophy where as TW is with Wiki philosophy.

Nadja Bester

@NadjaBester

Aug 12, 2020

+1 on UI. Been considering TW cos I ♥️ the look and feel of

@andy_matuschak

's Evergreen Notes (ZK philosophy), though I think he might be using SemPress WP theme (I could be totally misguided, be nice to know). Have you tried

for comparison to

Replying to

(It’s just a home-rolled webapp, not a theme for another platform, I’m afraid)

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Replying to

I thought there were similarities with

@loopdouble

's site look and feel, who I've seen mention SemPress, but I seem to have mixed up sites. Not only does he appear to use something else now, it was

@gordonbrander

's site I had in mind. Anyway, love the webapp,

Yes! I love

’s site. Mine has been the result of an 8 year slow-gardening process. Still have only published a small fraction of it. It seems we’ve independently evolved similar note-taking approaches.