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Systems like Zettelkasten are interesting to read about, but again, everyone's brain is different and for me a bunch of folder categories and one misc/daily fol
by kiba 6y ago
Systems like Zettelkasten are interesting to read about, but again, everyone's brain is different and for me a bunch of folder categories and one misc/daily folder is just as good.
I find that folders/tags inevitably just run into the issue of notes not fitting into any particular schema. So often time I just use the search function, or use a particular note that consist mostly of only organized links. This way I can have multiple schema of organization even if they overlap. Or rather, overlap is a good thing. It means you have multiple ways to find a given subject.
- esperent 6y agoThe schemas are not that important though, I just use search 90% of the time anyway.
- endymi0n 6y agoSince realizing this about 5 years ago, I‘ve actually started optimizing for it. Whenever I hit cmd+s, I make sure to enter a search mindset and make the file name as keyword heavy and stemming friendly as possible. For smaller notes, I just have Sublime Text open with iCloud sync and operate freely with hundreds of tabs. Since then, any thought has never been more than a Spotlight search or a „find in files“ away.
- emj 6y agoStemming and keyword enrichment is something I've never seen done really good so I'm not sure you can build a tool that is good for it.
- pqdbr 6y agoSame here. I've tried many different Markdown tools along the way. However, keeping everything in Sublime (files in Dropbox) is specially nice because I'm always one `cmd ~` away from having my notes, and one `CMD SHIFT F` from finding exactly what I need.
- andrei_says_ 6y agoWhat do you do about images in this setup?
- type0 6y agoBut tags are very valuable when you can filter them, sometimes if you don't remember what to search for but know what it was tagged as you can find it fast. This only is an issue when you have a lot of notes otherwise I agree that search can be almost as good.