2. Collate all the interesting and useful information into one location
3. Condense this information into a blog post/article(optional: publish it in a 1. learning in public system - there might be errors in this)
4. Create a plan to use this knowledge in a project
5. Do a retrospective after using the knowledge and seeing results - What worked, what didn't work, what can be improved.
6. Add these points to your article
7. Use the knowledge in another project(ideally, in a different contexts) and do the last 3 steps. You might have to do it 3-4 times before you have a decent understanding of it.
So true! This has bugged me enough to create a introduction to Zettelkasten myself - just one page - https://binnyva.com/zettelkasten/ (wanted to keep it under 500 - but it went to 700 words).
Too many my friends are getting the idea Zettelkasten is complicated. When anyone express interest, I make it a point to tell them its a very simple concept. The complication is more in creating the behavior of taking notes rather than in using the system.
I use Obsidian - just markdown files. I use a Gatsby tool to convert it to a static site and upload it to my Digital Garden - https://notes.binnyva.com/
> Obsidian is adding features that most editors don't support which is kind of a vendor lock in
I'm assuming you mean block level referencing? Or Frontmatter at the beginning of the Markdown?
I haven't found this to be an issue - but worst case, you can choose not to use it.
Learning about Personal Knowledge Management systems. This includes Zettelkasten, PARA, Building a Second Brain and other systems. On the look out for more frameworks in this space.