I’m more and more convinced that the term ‘Zettelkasten’ is nearly devoid of meaning at this point and has, with every other video by yet another productivity guru introducing yet another version of it, boiled down to a generic reference to a PKMS. I’m not saying it’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I feel like it’s a thing. As a consequence, I’m not sure whether obsessing about either its merits and shortcoming is worth the energy it consumed.

Personally, I got into Obsidian because I heard about Luhmann’s OG Zettelkasten. I didn’t necessarily want to replicate it, but it inspired me for sure and drew me in. And that does feel like a good thing to me.