After creating a couple Zettelkasten pages on Roam and rereading this post, I decided to try it on paper. That was a week ago. I still haven’t created a single page. Aaaaah. You can’t change things on paper, so it must be PERFECT. And if it’s not perfect, then it’s a working memory dump which shouldn’t be in Zettelkasten in the first place. During this week I filled perhaps 15 A4 pages of my working notebook, but all of it wasn’t good enough for Zettelkasten. And then when some of it was good enough, I used it to write a long answer on stackoverflow. And after having done that, why would I also write it on paper? Yeah, perhaps paper zettelkasten is not for me.
Failure mode: perfectionism
After creating a couple Zettelkasten pages on Roam and rereading this post, I decided to try it on paper. That was a week ago. I still haven’t created a single page. Aaaaah. You can’t change things on paper, so it must be PERFECT. And if it’s not perfect, then it’s a working memory dump which shouldn’t be in Zettelkasten in the first place. During this week I filled perhaps 15 A4 pages of my working notebook, but all of it wasn’t good enough for Zettelkasten. And then when some of it was good enough, I used it to write a long answer on stackoverflow. And after having done that, why would I also write it on paper? Yeah, perhaps paper zettelkasten is not for me.