Finished reading: Antinet Zettelkasten by Scott Scheper 📚🗃️
There are two and a half books here for the price of one in this note-keeping samizdat:
- one: a brief practical guide on how to make an analogue note system;
- two: an exhaustive list of more or less science-based reasons for why you would pick analogue over digital;
- and a half: the author’s self-conscious and slightly over the top running commentary about it all.
The first one was spot on and valuable. The second needed an editor: repeated paragraphs were peppered throughout the chapters a few too many times for me to find it just charming. But an editor may also have cut the commentary, which ended up adding some sparkle — lacking in most other non-fiction books.
Better than expected, even after accounting for low initial expectations. See number 24 here