Just realized that Twitter is basically a public Zettelkasten implementation.
— Taylor Hadden (@Cptn_ChillPill) February 22, 2022
Twitter might also be a zettelkasten, but the ratio of useful permanent notes to fleeting notes is appalling.
Featured photo: Pencil annotation from chapter 3, page 64:
Kalir, Remi H., and Antero Garcia. Annotation. MIT Press, 2021.
For sure. I personally don’t ever see myself using it as such. The public nature of it means I am constantly optimizing for how others will perceive what I’m saying. Huge amounts of friction. everything-abridged.com/friction_in_re…
Taylor, Twitter does however make an excellent stream to help water your #DigitalGarden.
https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/
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Do you use Twitter as your public stream or as inputs?
To me it’s more like a megaphone. If I want to share a real thought, I’ll post a link to that thought on Twitter.
My personal website is currently serving as both my public garden and stream. I use Twitter for some inputs, though I try to lean on denser books and articles for their better content.
When I choose to share content I most often post it on my website and syndicate copies of it to Twitter or other social targets, which I’m doing right now and include links back to the original which usually have more metadata and depth.
Often I work in public with the proverbial garage door open using Hypothes.is as my online/digital annotation tool of choice. Data captured there is automatically posted (contemporaneously and privately) to both my personal website and a (currently) private Obsidian notebook where I do most of my day-to-day work. As things progress, I’ll often post the results publicly back on my website and syndicate to Twitter as necessary.
While Twitter can serve as a megaphone, most of my work is really for my own benefit, though if folks find it useful to discover there, I’m usually happy to have commentary and useful interactions. Though I’ll mention that all the Twitter interactions get copied back to my personal site from which I’ll usually be posting replies back. This allows me to keep the threads of conversation in one place where I can control them to some extent and find them at later dates.
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I have no problem with the idea of publishing my thoughts or notes, but I’m not about to start doing that in as unfiltered a way as using Twitter as my primary notes tool would demand.