What are your views on Zettelkasten Note taking System

[MartinBoycott-Brown]

@chrisvar

Re-visioning the field, and adopting either a flatter structure or more use of aliases (or both) may be a more productive approach.

Some time back I accidentally started off quite a discussion that you might find useful:

https://forum.eastgate.com/t/user-attributes-or-tags/1069

I remember that James Fallows made the observation that associations are better than hierarchies (or similar wording) and that idea has stuck with me.

Getting Started on the Right Foot

This is a response to the original poster, Damien, but I’m referring to points in the Eastgate / Mark B post just above. I wanted to say to Damien that all of the advice you’re getting here is sound. But my own experience with the program (over now nearly a decade, after previous immersion in the sublime DOS program Lotus Agenda, and then the Windows program Zoot), makes me especially want to emphasize the points I am quoting above: My natural instinct was to build hierarchies, based on a l…