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Having guzzled that Kool-aid myself for a while, and I'm still shaking it off: PKM/zettelkasten/digital garden folks feel a lot like the GTD fad visited upon a
by mtndew4brkfst 2y ago
Having guzzled that Kool-aid myself for a while, and I'm still shaking it off: PKM/zettelkasten/digital garden folks feel a lot like the GTD fad visited upon a new generation of victims.
It has a lot of audience and topic overlap with grindset/hustle culture. There's a large, insidious YouTube corpus promising productivity panacea if only you'll adopt whatever specific software and methodology is currently being blessed. The fetishization of a specific process and artifact is treated as whats important rather than cultivating writing habits and periods of reflection.
Neurodivergent and otherwise chronically-disorganized folks aren't going to find salvation there, but often find themselves suckered in to something like this.
- fuzzy_biscuit 2y agoThis, sadly, resonates with me. I've been pulled into GTD and a few other similar kool-aid stations, and it's not sustainable and mostly not valuable. It looks cool and feels cool but fails in the value department for me.
- darkteflon 2y agoI agree that there’s a lot of fetishisation going on. Which is fine, if that’s what you’re into. Graph linking and visualisation in particular seems like a total furfy. On the other hand, I have derived great value from adopting a practice of writing discrete things I need to remember or refer to later into a folder of date-stamped .txt or .md files and then later surfacing them with a generic full-text search tool. I can’t imagine sitting down to do my taxes, for example, without that information at my fingertips. Others may have more luck retaining in-memory the multitude of small details life throws at you.