Came across this article today <http://blog.dornea.nu/2021/06/13/note-taking-in-2021/> via HackerNews (where it has sparked quite a lively comment thread <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513008>), which brought me to realise something about an inner tension i have been struggling for too long to reconcile: it's about the difference between NoteTAKING vs NoteMAKING (or DigitalGardening or MindMapping or ZettelKasten or PKMS or whatever you want to call it) -two modalities of work that are so fundamentally different, the idea of trying to do both with the same tool might just never work, period.
Interestingly, author Victor Dorneau keeps his own Zettelkasten in TiddlyWiki, citing @Soren B's as his inspiration (GMTA ;-)...And tho his NoteTaking/GTD system is rather more complicated than i would like (it involves Emacs ORG mode and some proprietary mobile app, from which he extracts & converts data to XML via a "simple" Golang script), i completely resonate with the principle: while one's NoteMAKING tool should be optimised for "Intertwingularity" -as TiddlyWiki of course is- one's NoteTAKING tool should optimised for maximum speed & portability. So, i'm now back to using Dynalist for agile NoteTaking, exporting my workfile at day's end as plain text, and copy/pasting it into a new Journal tiddler in TW for integration. Crude, but effective enough, albeit with some editing overhead in TW that it would be nice to eliminate. Am starting to explore the possibilities of Logseq as a potential Dynalist replacement; it does outlining in much the same way, but has some interesting export functions, including JSON and Roam JSON. If there were a way in TW to import such exports and convert them into proper tiddlers... That would be amazing! If anyone else has got some other solution for agile NoteTaking that integrates nicely with TiddlyWiki for NoteMaking, i'd be very interested to hear about it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" 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/tiddlywiki/a93960c0-d7f6-4d15-bd55-39f4685c35a9n%40googlegroups.com.
