First, I want to say thanks for posting such a thorough walk-through of your experience with zettelkasten. I ended up using it as a sort of check against my own research and it proved very useful.
It seems zettelkasten, atomic notes, and inter-linking have become popular in the note-taking world, but I haven’t seen many (any?) apps/tech that support both webs and trees, as you say here. So, I made a jekyll template that does that. I am still working on it, there’s lots to add, the code isn’t open quite yet, but I’d love to get feedback from anyone who is interested.
I personally find the bouncy animation for the tree annoying—I would prefer if it would sit in place, so that I feel like I can click around without losing my spot. (I know I don’t really “lose my spot”, but the bouncy animation makes it feel non-static.)
But I don’t really like ‘concept graph’ visualizations in note-taking stuff anyway, so, my feedback wrt that may not be indicative of what potential users of it would think.
I found that I wanted to expand more things on one page, rather than having to visit each note individually to read them, since the notes are quite short. I like outliners for their ability to show nested stuff compactly. I think the idea of “seeing as much info at once as possible” is important (although the idea of focusing in on one thing to get rid of distractions is also important—eg how most outliner tools allow you to click on a node to focus on it).
First, I want to say thanks for posting such a thorough walk-through of your experience with zettelkasten. I ended up using it as a sort of check against my own research and it proved very useful.
It seems zettelkasten, atomic notes, and inter-linking have become popular in the note-taking world, but I haven’t seen many (any?) apps/tech that support both webs and trees, as you say here. So, I made a jekyll template that does that. I am still working on it, there’s lots to add, the code isn’t open quite yet, but I’d love to get feedback from anyone who is interested.
I personally find the bouncy animation for the tree annoying—I would prefer if it would sit in place, so that I feel like I can click around without losing my spot. (I know I don’t really “lose my spot”, but the bouncy animation makes it feel non-static.)
But I don’t really like ‘concept graph’ visualizations in note-taking stuff anyway, so, my feedback wrt that may not be indicative of what potential users of it would think.
I found that I wanted to expand more things on one page, rather than having to visit each note individually to read them, since the notes are quite short. I like outliners for their ability to show nested stuff compactly. I think the idea of “seeing as much info at once as possible” is important (although the idea of focusing in on one thing to get rid of distractions is also important—eg how most outliner tools allow you to click on a node to focus on it).