Keeping zetel notes: productive or counterproductive approach.

Posted by Amontillado
Dec 4, 2018 at 03:00 AM

I started to reply several times to the zettelkasten thread. I’m intrigued by any method of organization and I’m still seeking the true zen of tagging. There are subtleties. The epistemology and taxonomy of CRIMPing is of critical importance.

The Brain is a beautiful thing, but I fell off The Brain wagon a long time ago. It’s great, but I seek symmetry in access technique.

The Brain has a vertical parent-child structure, the hierarchical tree, and it has a horizontal hierarchical tree, the jump thought references. Both can contain multiple parent and circular references.

That’s not quite enough, though, so it supports tagging, too.

Devonthink features multiple hierarchies, the group hierarchy and as many tag trees as you want. I tend to think of tagging as not too different from The Brain’s jump thoughts, but I’m not sure that’s an optimal model.