Tools I’ve tried and abandoned at some point on my PKM journey, for one reason or another:
- Joplin
- writefreely/write.as
- Fleeting Notes
- Simplenote
- OneNote
- traditional bujo
- Hobonichi paper planners (both Weeks and Techo) and Muji knockoffs
- Notion
- Trillium.next
- Zettelkasten (sorta)
I don’t view these as failed experiments so much as learning opportunities that have illuminated my priorities; I’ve also taken bits and pieces from various approaches and carried them forward as I’ve developed my digital garden ethos.
I love trying new things and playing around with tech, but am not a person who actually knows how to use computers besides pasting commands into the CLI from a tutorial; this tension underpins much of my PKM adventures, lol.