Useful Article Explaining Zettelkasten

Posted by Amontillado
Jan 4, 2020 at 03:06 AM

Zettelkasten is a neat concept. One drawback in my newest fascination, Curio, is that it doesn’t support hierarchical tags.

If you can impose a hierarchy on tags, they become an alternate organization for notes, not just a way to clump things together.

The world is a curious place, though. How can it possibly be that if I Google “law enforcement zettlekasten” I come up dry? You would think that would be a field that would drive all kinds of relational note-taking products.

Instead, I find articles like this one, https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-lotus-notes-20180808-story.html, about Baltimore trying to graduate from Lotus Notes.

Interesting to speculate, that ragtag nerdy rebels could muster more advanced tools for fighting a war of information than the police.