Great help and lots to think about, Christopher! I appreciate your input. I'm probably going to give Obsidian a try. I've got a few videos queued up on YouTube to begin my journey. 😁
On Sat, Mar 6, 2021, 5:57 AM Christoph Zwerschke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/mFWOD-wiXoU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/573a1103-6dae-fffc-d97f-30bb78ec88bf%40online.de > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CAEjRtbj4nhBebhC69GmJewTNFPjYzsyja%3DY%3DZ96a%2BuY8MhPTOQ%40mail.gmail.com.
