202202171517 - People mistake note taking with thought capturing
- I only got started with my zettelkasten project and friends who use similar tools like obsidian or roam have sent me posts about how people struggle to maintain their second brain.
- The article of Dan Shipper 1 argues that all the benefit from using bi-direction linking led to the pain of knowing where to put a note
- From my perspective there is a clear difference between taking notes (to-do lists, daily notes, etc) or capturing thoughts to connect down the stretch to build up knowledge.
- He concludes that a fix is to enable search which I got our of the box (to a degree) via the template 2 I use to host my personal foam project, which supports local search & full-text search.
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Last updated on 6/3/2022