You Don’t Need to Remember Anything Meets LLM Fans

Over on Hacker News, under the title “We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds”, my pal Sascha’s post on Zettelkasten.de became the top post yesterday. The original title is “The Scam Called “You Don’t Have to Remember Anything””.

Something resonated with the tech community there, so I figured you might want to check out the post as well.

The 150+ comments went into all kinds of directions from a first screening. We’ll discuss this further in a couple of days. For now, enjoy reading Sascha’s post.

Extend Your Mind and Memory With a Zettelkasten

This post has moved to Zettelkasten.de. Read it there.

A Zettelkasten is a device to extend your mind and memory so you can work with texts efficiently and never forget things again. Both permanent storage and interconnectedness are necessary to use the full potential of an archive for your notes. You need a permanent storage for your notes so they can give a cue for the things you want to remember. You also need to manually connect notes to create a web of notes which adjusts to the way your mind works.

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