On 06.03.2021 02:11, c.k. lester wrote:
> I saw that book mentioned on YouTube when I was researching Obsidian
> and Dynalist. I think Obsidian, especially, is all about that
> Zettelkasten... which I don't know what that is yet. :D
Obsidian is very flexible, it can be used as a Zettelkasten, but it's
not specially designed for it. Similar to how MLO can be used to
implement GTD, but was not specially designed for that purpose only.
If you enjoy the Zettelkasten method, Zettlr may be even more
appropriate. Both follow the approach that your notes stay on your local
computer and are under your control and can be edited with any text or
Markdown editor. On the other end are tools where your notes are in the
cloud in a proprietary format, like Roam. I don't like becoming too much
dependent on the cloud, a particular service provider and network
access. And putting your private notes in the cloud always raises data
privacy concerns. That's why I don't use Evernote any more - in the
latest version they removed the possibility of having local notebooks,
among other degredations. When tools become "mainstream", make profit
and new managers are hired, they often get worse because they want to
appeal to the masses and create maximum revenue, and being useful to us
power users is of little concern.
You should ask first whether you want a cloud based service or files
under local control, whether you need mobile aps and sync, and which
kind of sync (against a central server, or via your LAN with the desktop
as server - MLO offers both, or using a separate cloud service like
Dropbox), whether end-to-end encryption is important for you or not.
There are many note-taking apps, but asking these questions first will
reduce the awailable choices significantly.
Also, narrow down which category of tools best fits your needs:
- Outliner (strictly hierarchical trees)
- Graph-based with backlinks (more free linking)
- Personal Wiki (similar, old style)
- Zettelkasten (special method)
- Spaced Repetition (for learning stuff)
- Journaling tools (daily notes, chronological ordering)
- Bibliographic database (archiving articles from the Web)
Personally, I found that outliners (like OneNote) are too strict to map
my real life and knowledge where everything is connected with everything
else and things don't fall into single categories, but multiple, and
categories and interests are always changing. I want to be able to
categorize more freely and to sometimes just jot down daily notes (the
chronological entry of notes was what I liked most about Evernote).
Currently I settled with Obsidian because it allows free linking, but is
also flexible enough to also support journaling and hierarchical
indexes. You can still create a hierarchy of knowledge like in an
outliner by storing your notes in a hierarchical folder tree and/or
adding Markdown index pages pointing to other nodes. But you are not
forced to put everything in a single outline.
-- Christoph
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