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I agree with this and my assessment is that notes have to be reader/user-friendly (even if the only user is you), and that requires giving a shit, and we barely know how to teach ourselves to give a shit, let alone automate it or outsource it to a tool
My hot take re: zettelkastan and back-linking is that it actually works less than people want it to work. At least with the tools we currently have. I rarely go through my Obsidian and find some new quote or idea I forgot existed and create something out of it.
the secret sauce of every genuine note-taking guru (I would put @fortelabs in this bucket, he’s legit) is that they give a shit. the courses etc are all contexts in which hopefully you too can pick up giving a shit, via osmosis. Copying someone’s stack or toolset ≠giving a shit
sorry if it’s a bit crude to frame it like this lol I guess you could say “care” instead. Do you care or do you not? Your note taking app or system or tool can do a lot of things but it can’t *care* on your behalf. Apps don’t care, books don’t care, only people care afaik
the funny thing is that people who care might not realize that that’s their secret sauce. they demonstrate it in everything that they do, but they might not think to point at it directly. It can be like a “forgot to plug it in and turn on the power” type of error. Very common!!
And I think most people, if they stopped to take a fresh inventory of everything going on in their life, will find that some of the topography of their concerns and interests have changed underneath their feet. It’s rare for ppl to really be perfectly in tune with themselves
@visakanv The question is whether the note-taking tool supports you to see the solution to a problem more quickly than a simple google search would do. Actually, it has become very hard to find valuable resources online in an efficient manner. Like spam content burys all the real content.