When asked how he published so much, Luhmann used to answer “I’m not thinking everything on my own. I’m sure they’re useful if you’re willing to do all the effort of categorizing / maintaining the notes - but articles like this: Same sort of thing for Zettelkasten-based systems. I have the sneaking suspicion that his success has far, far less to do with Notion than it does with those habits / cognitive processes. He’s also hyper-disciplined to log and track everything in his system. And to be fair, he does some really cool stuff with Notion.īut if you think about it for a minute, the guy spent the mental effort to not only categorize everything in his life, but to develop an entire general-purpose information architecture system. I kind of feel like a lot of this is “tool over technique” thinking.įor example, I just watched August Bradley’s “Life Operating System” video. The hype around Roam and Obsidian is deafening. In the mean time scratch out bulleted quick notes in Drafts, I outline like a madman in OmniOutliner, and I use outlines side-by-side with Ulysses text windows. (Well, less so for the pdfs and epubs and webarchives - but Zettls and Roams and Obsidians can’t do anything with those files anyway.) My ideal, unrealized writing environment would be a Dynalist/Workflowy/OmniOutliner-style outliner for note-taking which, with a click, would blossom a Scrivener/Ulysses-style left column series of folders/sheets with a main writing area into which I could fill or expand the outline text. When I take notes it’s in outline form, and at this point I automatically internally compose and sort things in my mind in outline and bullet-list form and I’m mostly in control of the text and resources. I think that I’d generally get more out of manually searching with DevonThink, say, and using its boolean and fuzzy searching to show me scored results of files with related material I could peruse, while letting me use a more comfortable app environment for my notes and long-form writing. It is interesting be to see how quickly the concept of backlinks has swept through the productivity and notetaking space, and I’ll follow the advancements in current and new apps, but I’m not ready to be a guinea pig for new, evolving apps with the feature. But I cannot say that it would necessarily help me except in rare events. I think that linking absolutely everything has the potential to show correspondences I’d otherwise have missed, especially as the database of writing increases. I appreciate now that perhaps There was something to the spark that I felt when I started doing mind maps. I am intrigued that non-linear methods are so productive.
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