Building a Second Brain

Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 7, 2022 at 01:40 PM

Your reference to Matuschak is interesting: by far my favourite feature in the new version of Obsidian is the built-in Matuschak-style “tab stacking”, which allows you to have multiple notes open (in a “stack”) and then compare any note in the stack with another note. This is amazingly intuitive, as well as powerful – I love it, and use it much more than I ever refer to backlinks.

Cyganet wrote:
I agree with Dellu. I spent a brief time messing around with
>zettelkasten and found it to be counterproductive busywork that got in
>the way of actually getting things done. I’m not trying to “build a
>second brain”, I’m trying to use my first brain to write something
>meaningful. And to do that I organise my notes in a hierarchy where I
>can find them again, using a structure and naming convention that
>instantly tells me what I’m looking at.
> >For interest, here is Andy Matuschak’s take on the subject:
>“Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is
>“better thinking”
>https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z7kEFe6NfUSgtaDuUjST1oczKKzQQeQWk4Dbc
> >Note the meaningless URL. If I stored my notes that way, or using zettel
>codes such as 1.a.1.b2 or 20221104053328 I would never find anything
>again. I much prefer something like Book Research > Notes > Interviews.
> >