Warning: unstructured ramblings without editing ahead.

I am one of those people obsessed with notebooks, notetaking apps and notetaking in general. I have tried it all, atomic notes, zettelkasten, second brains, logbooks, bullet journals, compendiums, commonplaces, you name it. And I've found one simple truth: I don't have the patience to review my notes consistently, which is the main usefulness of the majority of this methods. I do find notetaking very useful for some thing, and was one of the first tips my psychologist gave me in order to be able to disconnect from work after hours. I think that the thing that I love the most about notetaking is the illusion of productivity: when you are taking notes it seems like you are working towards something, and you have a product to show for it!

Nonsense.

I've found many interesting things while obsessed about this topic, don't get me wrong. I can structure notes properly to share with people, I have found many useful notetaking methods (Cornell is still my favorite) and deep down I still hope that my notes are useful someday, to me or to the ones who come after, but I've done it for long enough that I know that it won't be the panacea for my life that I thought it would be.

I will still take notes on the regular, but I will not try to maintain a PKM. I will still use Obsidian for work and for Worldbuilding/TTRPGs, but I won't try to get everything I know, do and experience into a database of sorts. And of course no more notetaking about notetaking.

Big inspiration for this breakthrough/rant/however you wanna call it has been conversations that I've had lately with my friends about this topic and Joan Sestenberg's video about nuking their vault.

I have decided to revamp this web at last. The reason being that I want to get serious with a new Worldbuilding project of mine, and the tools that I know for publishing and sharing are too expensive or too cumbersome (i say, as I've been fighting CSS for the better part of two days. I'm a Computer Science Engineer but I've never liked front end development, sue me).

Another reason is that I've been more in contact with my creative and brooding side lately, and I think that this could be a good outlet.

I'm doing a blank slate revamp of the whole page, I was thinking about maintaining the blogs, the stationery and publishing some of the worldbuilding that I created but never showed here, but I think that I mainly need to start moving things on and using the site to get used to it.

As CME_T would say: Peas and Carrots!