Podcast with [[Gordon Brander]] and the Sönke Ahrens of [[How To Take Smart Notes]]. Ideas: - When note-taking feels like a slog or is ineffective, it's often due to a broken [[Feedback Loops]]. - What feedback loops do I need to implement in my process when taking notes so that they are integrated and discoverable? - Institution-building is an important but lost skill. - Zettelkasten has some important limitations that make the system actually work - ideas are numbered - the cards and writing by hand limits the - the process of filing cards forces you to think about "region" or "area" - What is lost when moving to digital from paper [[Zettelkasten]]? - Spatiality matters, of course - What about a digital always-on box? - What about software that purely replicates the paper Zettelkasten, even though that's super ineffecient... - Try to change as little as possible. - Embrace the limitations as much as possible. - Focus is lost - What about a single-purpose device, like a reMarkable, that was just used for the Zettelkasten? - Think of it like a one-way valve - it allows water (information) to pass through in one direction, but not the other. - Another analogy - a one-way mirror - Similarly, sync could work one-way, moving information off the Zettel device, but never allowing the Zettel device to get new information onto it. - In order to cope with application churn, build the simplest system possible that would be portable to other applications.