Comment by sho | Hacker News Reader

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  I’m a little surprised that there aren’t any mentions of Obsidian, while there are at least two mentions of Roam. To all Roam lovers, and to all intellectuals in general, I’d recommend you to check out Obsidian [1] from the makers of Dynalist.

  It’s also a tool made mainly for Zettelkasten

Just so you know, I consider myself probably a fairly typical HN user. Got my own little daily tech concerns, but keep a toe in the water of the larger zeitgeist. I have no idea what anything you just said means. You could be talking about brands of car or my little ponies for all I know. Googling it - seems it's something to do with notes?

Just remember that not everyone is in your little concern-bubble, and one or two explanatory sentences would be very welcome.

I wrote an article about Luhmann's Zettelkasten if you are interested: https://emvi.com/blog/luhmanns-zettelkasten-a-productivity-t...

I had to stop somewhere with the explanations. I was mainly addressing people already familiar with Roam, and also decided that Zettelkasten as a term is quite easily googleable. It’s true I could have slipped a few words there, along the lines of “...which is a note-taking technique” — I’ll make sure to do that next time.

the other thing is https://roamresearch.com/

It's a text based wiki or outliner (collapsible text) thought a step further, with auto backlinks etc.

Feels to me like a weaker org-mode, online with better cross-links/embeds (something that is indeed uncool in org. things can't live in two places at once)

There is org-roam, and it's getting better by the day: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam

Yea, have to try that some time.

I'll need to switch from one biiiig file to multiple than though. I think my biggest hindrance is setting up the refile targeting :)

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