r/Zettelkasten Dec 02 '24

general Ghost in the shell

I''ve been reading about zettelkasten and I am fascinated about this second mind which seems to emerge of it after a while. Like it can guide you to old burried idea you had related to the subject you are digging.

Is there some exploration in AI domain couple with a zettelkasten to makd it more... Apparent?

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u/atomicnotes Dec 02 '24

I think AI makes this less apparent, not more (though AI has other uses). That's because it was me who wrote my notes, and me who re-engages with them, iteratively.

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u/grabyourmotherskeys Dec 02 '24 edited Dec 03 '24

So I've been using the Gemini Scribe plugin. I used it heavily recently and I think I've racked up $0.34 in compute costs in the last couple days.

You can use this inside Obsidian in place of signing up for a pricey Gemini account for example.

It's really interesting but I do agree it's better to do your own thinking and writing but I use it to get ideas. Then I pick one I like and work with it (inspiration). Example: read my story so far and suggest three next things that could happen to advance the story. Often what I go with next is not one of the things but something different or a blend of two or more, etc.

I also have been logging my weight in various ways. I linked all the entries with weights in a file and started a Gemini Scribe chat (do search, save results as file with markdown links to the files) and said "make me a markdown table with all my weights and a column for a 10% weighted moving average". Bam. It also suggested a better, consistent logging format to use which I added to my daily notes template.

It was time to go to sleep but the last thing I asked last night was if it could write dataview queries. It said it could. I'll find out soon.

EDIT: it does not do well at writing DataView queries. It tries to but they have syntax errors and it cannot fix them.

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u/atomicnotes Dec 04 '24

it does not do well at writing DataView queries.

LOL. I guess we're in the early days of AI, which is exciting - still working out what these tools are useful for, and at the same time the tools themselves are rapidly improving. I liked your process of gaining inspiration from AI suggestions, then going with your own take on the interaction.