I think not. The cognitive scientists are eager to point out that that people who are members of religious/spiritual groups are doing actually better in many indicators of a “good life”.
Today’s (normal)money system is complex and still many of it is not transparent to the public. Ethereum is trying to build something with more transparency but also tries to create a space in which people can experiment with funding. ( see quadratic voting experiments)
Is anyone reminded by this as kind of a smalltalk image?
I mean an environment that is self contained and can be modified?
I wished the authors would think of aspects like that: how to modify the system without restarting it or needing separate tools.
Sure it looks nice but in the end its a browser with some javascript libs glued together with sqllite or something?
Customization seems way to difficult , so the tool can do a bit of tiny things that seem nice for me but so many things that I don't need. The GUI seems very bloated for me.
Is this just me? Or are people generally happy with such GUIs?
I'm very happy with this program, the GUI isn't the most elegant but it does the job.
I don't think I'd describe the GUI as 'bloated' though... it's actually pretty minimal. I think the screenshot on the github page makes it look busier than it really is (e.g. the sidebar can be hidden, and you'd usually be using it with a larger window size).
I find the program to be very powerful out of the box, so I haven't had to customize much (the customization is just icing on the cake IMO).
I use this program every day at work as my personal knowledgebase for my technical support notes (and also for taking notes on phone calls). I have thousands of notes and this program handles it much better than anything else I've tried. The powerful tree structure, fast search, and tagging system make it really easy for me to quickly find what I'm looking for.
Well it's not primarily build to be a Zettelkasten. But you can use it like a Zettelkasten if you really want to, like with most writing tools. We have a few users which do that already. I wrote about it here: https://emvi.com/blog/luhmanns-zettelkasten-a-productivity-t...
It depends on what you are looking for. Your thinking works at least in a different way. You remember things by finding things that connect to the thing your looking for...
One could say their "Link map" enables such a thing but its not quite the same thing.
Personally I do really like the Zettelkasten Method which leans more towards a representation of thought in a written form. Ever wondered how the Zettelkasten "guy" Nikolas Luhman could be so productive(> 50 books) it was because of his Zettelkasten(Method).
So every time I find a new tool, at least for me I evaluate it through that lens: how much does it really help me to represent my thought process. And hiearchical notes are not enough for that, at least for me...
