This is most interesting. Every time I think I am just not able to do it Zettlekasten and Obsidian pops up :) Normally I could blame it on 'the algo' if it were any other part of social media, but here on Hive I can only say that it is fate. I guess I need to give it a go again :D
I do love the idea of Zettlekasten and do think Obsidian is a neat software. I have been evangelizing the latter to all my nieces and nephews and others. However I find that where I come short is in the actual note taking. I am unable to decide how to take notes, and to add to that I get even more confused on whether to take notes at a unit level like Mr (Prof?) Luhmann did, or just generally note it down.
All in all, I think I need to find some way to teach me note taking. It is something that was not really required in Indian universities when I used to study there ages ago :)
I do notice you have suggested the book by Sönke Ahrens. I think it is on my TBR. I will give it a go. I know this comment is a very late one (just got active on HIVE a few weeks ago) but if there is any other input you could give that can help me with note taking please do suggest. Many thanks.
I spent time trying to learn the 'right' way to take notes and eventually decided to make use of what works for me. I use MOCs (Maps of Content) and folders a lot. I have a HOME note that is my master MOC. Every note has a link back to HOME and to the MOC the next level up. I set them up using:
TOP::HOME (link used)
UP::Next Level
Then if there are other notes I want to cross-reference I'll use:
SEE::note to look at.
That gives me a relevant directory of sorts at the top of every note.
In the notes I will use hashtags on general topics like #biznotes #notetaking so I can then easily search out topics of focused interest for me.
Recently I found GPT4All which gives me an AI chatbot on my desktop that can be used without a connection to the next thus keeping my data private. It will read Obsidian vaults. I can tell AI to check my collection for whatever query I want and it will come back with a summary list of references I can look at or I can just ask it to summarize the information.
Unfortunately, they did an update of the software and it's triggered a fault that wont run on some machines, one being mine. I hope they are working on resolving the problem.
my practical issue with the way i take notes is that there is no consistent template/sytle/framework way to my taking notes. I keep getting scatterbrained about it somehow :(
maybe your framework is scatterbrained and write accordingly. Search functions can sort out of lot of scatter :)
Good Point. I should explore this further.