Santi Younger
From Paper Zettelkasten To Obsidian
There I was, once again looking for a new app to organize my ideas. I’d been through all the common apps, nothing worked.
I found out that a mad sociologist by the name of Luhmann managed to write over 70 books with the help of over 90,000 pieces of paper in drawers. He called his system Zettelkasten.
My journey began, I created my own paper index card system.
It was great, but it quickly got out of hand, I knew I needed to find a digital version of it.
I found plain text files, I decided to go hard core. I hear of this thing called vim, months later the world was mine.
From the moment I felt the benefits of my new system. I wanted to share what I’d learned.
I needed to find a user-friendly yet powerful tool that allowed me to teach these techniques.
Now, I finally knew what I was looking for:
- Powerful
[[connections]] - Plain text local files
- Markdown
- Vim shortcuts
- Awesome Community
The rest is history.
This story was shortened, here’s the full blog-post