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I find striking how much of a hype there is around concepts like "second brain", "zettelkasten", "networked note-taking", "PARA method", "Johnny Decimal", etc., and around note-taking apps such as Roam Research, Notion, Obsidian, and so on. So I found fascinating Kevin Baker's May 2024 take on them as "sandboxes for infinite varieties of avoidant labor".

Here's the relevant excerpt, shared without further comment:

"Incapacitating" is exactly how I would describe my relationship to computers, especially since the start of the pandemic. "Friction" for me looks like uncertainty, partial knowledge, ambiguity, disorder, or anxiety. The ecosystem of note taking software and influencers that has emerged since 2020 offer a great example of what I am talking about. Writing is a task which forces one to confront ambiguity, uncertainty, and one’s own limits directly, so it’s not surprising that a coterie of avoidance entrepreneurs sprung up around it. The goal of note taking systems, almost without exception, is to provide a smooth, frictionless environment for making connections between disparate topics. As your “second brain” develops, the ability—and indeed the desire—to create a dense latticework of connections increases. The problem for me, at least, is that I don’t find the work of making connections to be difficult. If anything, my “first brain” tends to overproduce these kinds of thoughts.

What it does provide, however, is a sandbox for infinite varieties of “avoidant labor.” If your writing anxiety focuses, like mine frequently does, on the possibility of “accidental plagiarism,” well, you can tend to your “zettlekasten,” and ensure that everything you ever highlighted is properly cited and tagged. If you have a more generic form of writing anxiety, why not spend a few hours linking your notes? In both cases, you have an act adjacent to writing, which relieves some of the tension of not writing but actively avoids the task itself.

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- https://www.pkmweekly.com/p/pkm-weekly-2025-10-04

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#logseq DB updates and workflows
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and much more from OrcaNote, #noteey, #Heptabase, #RoamResearch, #Anytype and #Thymer

- https://www.pkmweekly.com/p/pkm-weekly-2025-05-18

- https://ednico.medium.com/pkm-weekly-2025-05-18-06ff938f83a9

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#obsidian Weekly reviews, lifeOs
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Thymer sync
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- https://ednico.substack.com/p/pkm-weekly-2025-04-19

- https://ednico.medium.com/pkm-weekly-2025-04-19-88f8729ec519

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#Tipp #Workflowy #Wissensmanagement #Outliner

Workflowy funktioniert wie #RoamResearch, #Notion, #Remnote usw. als "System von Blöcken". Die Abschnitte werden als Blöcke bezeichnet, sind untereinander verknüpfbar usw., Stichwort Backlinks. (Obsidian hingegen erzeugt ein File System.)

Bei Workflowy können alle Daten aber als eine (!) #Markdown-Datei - in einem Zug - gesichert werden.

Markdown ermöglicht "schlanke" Dateien und Zukunftssicherheit

https://workflowy.com/

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#tana
#logseq
#obsidian
#remnote
#Notion
#RoamResearch

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As I absolutely love wasting time, Substack is no longer part of the stack. Instead, using a WP+Convertkit combo.

- https://pkm-weekly.com/pkm-weekly-2024-06-29/

- https://medium.com/@ednico/personal-knowledge-management-pkm-weekly-2024-06-29-f09a7c1ec332

Many thanks as always for reading! 🙏

Il y a des gens ici qui se sentent à l'aise avec des outils de prise de note façon Roam Research ? Vous savez ce genre d'apps où tu ajoutes des bullet point sous des bullets points et chaque bullet point est un nouveau point de départ possible.

Je me suis dit que j'allais tester #remnote pour le fun https://www.remnote.com/

#roamresearch #notetaking

My note-making journey, as told in apps, from 2000 forward:

- Handwritten Notes
- #DevonThink
- #Evernote
- #NotationalVelocity
- #Yojimbo
- #KeepIt
- #OneNote
- #SimpleNote
- #Bear
- #GoodNotes
- #AppleNotes
- #RoamResearch
- #Obsidian
- #Tana
- #Obsidian (again)
- #Logseq
- #Obsidian and #Logseq

And those are just the tools I adopted for at least a month at a time.

Question for #OKM, #RoamResearch, #ObsidianMD, #logseq, and #ReflectApp users...

Anyone using no or almost no tags? Anyone using no or almost no folders? What's the biggest friction you have? I use tags mostly to scope search. I.e. search all notes with this tag for this string. But wondering if it's necessary. Also wondering if I even need my status tags. I don't really use them...

/cc @obsidianmd

#AthensResarch is really good!

It's supposed to be a #FOSS alternative to #RoamResearch. While it doesn't have as many tree specific features as #Workflowy it competes pretty well with #Dynalist.

After a few days of use I can say I do like the "networked" idea because it takes out the stress and distraction of having to sort your new sub-tree somewhere.