Zettelkasten in Obsidian experience

Posted by jimspoon
Jun 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM

https://www.xda-developers.com/zettelkasten-in-obsidian-life-changer/

I figured folks here might be interested in this link.

Posted by Amontillado
Jun 28, 2025 at 02:38 PM

Nice article!

I’m not a disciplined Zettelkasten purist. The Zettel methods inspire me, nonetheless.

For instance, at work I got tasked with writing a vim tutorial. That was easy enough. It’s a text editor. Run vimtutor at the command prompt and enjoy scales falling from your eyes.

In case that wasn’t enough, I started writing vim notes in Devonthink similar to my creative writing outline/storyboard method.

For a story, I write plot agnostic notes about people, places, and things. These are fact notes. Nothing in those notes is dependent on the story. To outline the story, I write narrative notes, transcluding appropriate fact notes. Each narrative note becomes a little dossier about a plot point, with live updated facts known to be the same wherever they are transcluded.

My vim documentation project is fact notes, like cursor motion, overview of vim modes, register operations, tab and window operations, etc.

What would be narrative notes are use cases. For instance, I want to compare /etc/hosts on this computer with /etc/hosts on that computer, and I don’t want to mess with file copy and extra temp files I might forget to delete. That use case is a note stating the problem and how to do it. Transcluded in are the notes about file handling, covering :r and related commands, and file compare including :diffthis.

It’s evolving into a recipe book that encourages exploring side trips.

The project evolved me into a vim fanboy, I’m afraid. It’s very nice. It’s ugly, and it’s not The One True Text Editor (that would be neovim), but it’s very nice.

My life at work is no longer run out of the company supplied OneNote with undependable searches that lose checkboxes. Vimwiki, it’s a thing!

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