I’m starting a new public Zettelkasten. Even if I write thousands of words a day, all of a sudden, I don’t know what to write. This thing where you link words is something that I’ve experimented with before, but it has not been my default at all for over two years of writing over 3.5 million words. I guess it should be as easy as just introducing oneself and one’s interests and then just “complicate” it by having each and every single interesting word either turn into a page itself or be a display name for a page to “complicate” that hyperlinked phrase or word. I am using Quartz and Obsidian, and I’m prepared to have it made online, given that I already have a personal website up on Cloudflare Pages. It is really just a matter of beginning this whole new journey and then writing in the first spark that will trigger a myriad other sparks. It will chug on endlessly. Perhaps, this passage itself is a good starting note.
I will just do as I please, but this atomic approach will certainly make me a lot more “official” with the way that I handle terms instead of a lot more blended and simultaneous where the meaning is emergent rather than structured as per term, label, and definition. Nevertheless, there is no inherent tendency toward that approach, more so just a human psychological happening that coincides with the approach rather than any indication of the limitation of the Zettelkasten method, since structure is not damning, but interpretable and can easily find emergent meaning in the web of notes and find more fluid styles within the entire forest since it is not about linking each word and forcing the damning atom into the natural partitions of each constructed sentence, but about finding the connections that naturally dart out of the muck and jungly thickness of interconnected and layered thought processes.
This is the point of the display name. It damns the damner.
This entire website has about 8,400 words.