I Spent a Year Using Zettelkasten Wrong
For over a year, I followed zettelkasten principles religiously. My notes were atomic, containing one idea each. They were linked together with connections everywhere. They were beautifully formatted with clean markdown, headers, and structure. And I created them immediately while learning, exactly as I thought I was supposed to. My notes looked beautiful. They were technically correct. And they were completely useless. The result of all that work was hundreds of notes and zero value. Nothing to show for it. I would spend three hours on a thirty-minute course because I was creating “perfect zettelkasten notes” on every concept. By the time I finished, I was exhausted, the notes were pristine, and I never looked at them again. ...