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Zettlekasten was designed as a research tool, not a productivity system(for that I use task lists and progress bar).

Anyway, I used grep too, but I also navigate by following the links in my notes, which can sometime take me to different location. That can be a single file too or multiple files. That doesn't matter. What matters more is organization(or rather lack of).

With Zettlekasten, you build a concept map of topics that you wouldn't otherwise get if you write your notes linearly or chronologically.

So yeah, zettlekasten doesn't make sense as a productivity system, but that isn't its intended use case anyway.




Sure, to be clear, I meant using a big txt file as a place where you store notes from books, or your own ideas. Sure, you can also use it as a calendar or other organisational tasks as well, but is Zettlekasten better than a big txt file for storing (and referring back to) notes?


I don't think zettlekasten is necessarily predicated on "lot of files" afaik, but atomic notes.




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