brett terpstra notational velocity replacement

#BRETT TERPSTRA NOTATIONAL VELOCITY REPLACEMENT HOW TO#

#BRETT TERPSTRA NOTATIONAL VELOCITY REPLACEMENT HOW TO#

I am needing to write this up, but it started with watching Mike and Matty’s, Notion vs Roam vs Obsidian vs Remnote - How to best fit note taking app for you and using their criteria as a base, then building on it. I was building out a rough attribute model of tools to help see what each offered or didn’t. I started looking at about five or six different note taking tools.

Seriously Looking at Note Taking and Management Tools But, also using the model where many tools pointing at well formatted / structured data / information can function to their best ability and can use their strengths without breaking anything with the information / data. This is one of the common reasons for owning my own notes and having them locally and not using somebody else’s model and framework. Fortunately all of my notes are in plain markdown text files, so all I was missing was my tagging of the files in NValt (Brett Terpstra who created NValt has been working on a new tool that can replace NValt but has been taking forever to show up and my need became immediate). In this time of looking what a next generation of quick note taking would look like, but long used tool, NValt failed spectacularly, in that it would not find my directory where my 1,200+ notes were stored, nor could I add new notes. What I really like about Roam is its block focussed format, that is akin to purple numbers model of small chunks that are addressable and reusable. The cloud based, which requires being connected and online is a model I really don’t like as, particularly if their isn’t a local sync nor standard data format model. Roam bugged me most because it relies on an outline format but has no clue about OPML exporting, but worse has no good export model. That is too many common failure points wrapped into one product (Notion is working on and API, which is really good). But, each has a similar faults, no API, no standard export for structured information, and fully cloud based. Roam and Notion are two vastly different approaches, which can complement each other but in to way replace each other. But, the communities that are interested in Notion became obsessed with Roam Research, so I looked at Roam. I have been using Notion a little bit, but my only use the last few months is as an interstitial capture for YouTube and some other rich media. The interview with Beck focussed on Tinderbox, which I love, but I also want mobile access to my notes from phone and tablet. Then a few months back I heard Jorge Arango’s interview with Beck Tench it drew Zettelkasten back into focus. A couple years back I ran into Zettelkasten Method, that comes from Niklas Luhmann, which focuses on his prolific reading and his card catalogue and related note taking system. A continual genre in YouTube I watch is around productivity, particularly around personal knowledge management methods and tools.

The past many weeks I have been digging into a better note taking and management method, while also embracing what I have and my core underlying principles.

Brett terpstra notational velocity replacement