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Jethro Kuan
Personal blog · blog.jethro.dev/postsproductivityprogramming
Jethro Kuan's personal blog at blog.jethro.dev covers productivity and programming. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “How to take smart notes with Org mode”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jethro Kuan's blog, by the author of org-roam, covers Zettelkasten note-taking, org-mode and Emacs workflows, and Anki. HN readers link it as a guide to building a Zettelkasten in org-mode.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to take smart notes with Org mode3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-15
- Org-Mode Workflow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-19
- Releasing Org-Roam v2 (Zettlekasten on emacs)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-18
- Org Roam2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-17
- Experimenting with Remembrance Agents2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-26
What Hacker News says?
Zettelkasten has been making the rounds here this year. His process appears similar to the org-mode process using Jethro Kuan's org-roam. I've started using it and while it can be a bit tricky to set up and there's a couple mildly annoying bugs (with workarounds), for a solo project it filled the niche for me perfectly. I use it for all note taking and reading now and it is very satisfying. https://blog.jethro.dev/p…
Comment linking /posts/how_to_take_smart_notes_org/
on “Using Anki to remember what you read”Submitted How to take smart notes with Org mode as a story · 296 points
HN discussionThere's already an Emacs package which has become quite popular over the last few months! :-) See "org-roam" [1,2] (and several blog posts and youtube videos by now) [1]: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam [2]: https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/introducing_org_roam/
Comment linking /posts/introducing_org_roam/
on “Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead”Submitted Releasing Org-Roam v2 (Zettlekasten on emacs) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI would say the Emacs user mindshare has shifted somewhat to Doom. There are a lot of Doom fans on r/emacs now, and the Discord is huge compared to what it was. Many new contributors are cropping up. Even some developers of well-known packages, like org-roam, have switched to Doom. Take it from him, not me! https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/migrating_to_doom_emacs/ Compared to Spacemacs, which has complex abstraction la…
Comment linking /posts/migrating_to_doom_emacs/
on “Emacs is special regarding UIs”Submitted Org-Roam: A Year in Review as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI second that recommendation. It's a good book, and very, very useful. ---- I'm just starting to consolidate my notes, plans, and other documentation into an Emacs org-roam instance. I've got the workflow pretty well defined, now I'm just adding more and more "knowledge" to the instance. Org-roam is a recent Emacs-based implementation of https://roamresearch.com/ where you link notes to other notes, and the system a…
Comment linking /posts/how_to_take_smart_notes_org/
on “Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes?”Submitted Org-Mode Workflow as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI found this [1] series of posts to be incredible for implementing Zettelkasten using org-mode in Emacs. I don't use Zettelkasten myself, but maybe I'll have the time to get around to it... [1]: https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/org_mode_workflow_preview/
Comment linking /posts/org_mode_workflow_preview/
on “Luhmann's Zettelkasten”Submitted Releasing Org-Roam v2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI built a tool for myself earlier this year that's very similar to this, and I wrote a bit about it here [1]. For the most part, I found that flashcards only help when they are crafted with care, and it's a skill that needs to be learnt [2]. But what I found particularly useful about my hacked-up setup is that every card is contextualized: if I need a refresher for the content of a card, I can revisit the location (…
Comment linking /posts/taking_srs_seriously/
on “Show HN: Make spaced-repetition flashcards”Submitted Experimenting with Remembrance Agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJethro Kuan, the author of org-roam, has also written an early version of what you're referring to, called org-remembrance: https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/remembrance_agents/
Comment linking /posts/remembrance_agents/
on “Remembrance Agent (1996)”Submitted Org Roam as a story · 2 points
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