vinney...axkl
· 2w
i do a lot of hand-writing as well, but different goals.
handwritten notes can't come close to the kind of interlinking and full text search possible with a digital zettelkasten. But digital tools pa...
I sort of understand that the original was maintained with extensive interlinking but I think that can only work when you have intimate familiarity with the system, and even then proponents seem to gravitate towards index cards for just that more freedom over bounded journals in terms of establishing the links and working through them. But it would have to be something you worked with daily in order to keep up and maintain the extensive linking. I think, digital linking and cross linking is a lot easier, but I think that sometimes for me, perhaps, always, leads to overlining and note “ collecting” rather than effective utility.
It would be much harder to have to open up three or four journals, even if entries were linked through some sort of marginal notes, then it is to pull out 10 or 15 index cards and sort them on a desk and rearrange them. But what you are describing is more of a hybrid were you trying to get the best of both worlds.