Keeping zetel notes: productive or counterproductive approach.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 7, 2018 at 06:30 AM

My understanding is that the content, indexing and interconnections of zettel notes can be reproduced in any wiki, with a wiki page being the equivalent of a note.

What software like TheBrain (and Tinderbox, and more recently InfoQube I believe) can provide, which most wikis and the original Zettelkasten lack, is the visualisation of those connections.

In TheBrain, this occurs for the hierarchical (parent-child) and horizontal (jump) links. Not so for tags.

It is also possible to use TheBrain as a wiki, i.e. each ‘thought’ has its own local URL which can be copied into a note of TheBrain, in effect providing the full Zettelkasten functionality. However, these links are also not visualised in TheBrain’s ‘plex’.

In brief, win some lose some.

Amontillado wrote:
>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.