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For some meaningless coincidence, you are staring at these trivial lines of text that I had once mindlessly scribbled in my notebook that can be described as nothing but peculiar. Oh, if I forgot to introduce myself, I go by Lómenoirë.

Thus far, there are more than 1,600 zettels in this space, of which more than 150 are published. This graph shows the connections between published notes:

A network of all my notes (published and unpublished) looks something like this:

I write notes whenever I feel like doing so and whenever I have time to do so, usually in short bursts. At the end of the day, this is supposed to be something fun, relaxing, and meaningful. By the way, the very paragraph you are seeing right now is a result of me typing in an idyllic quadrangle somewhere with a cup of coffee in a placid morning listening to occasional birdsong and tree rustling. Who knows where I will be when the time comes for the next paragraph.

There is no single definition for this collection of notes. It is not technically a blog, nor entirely a private notebook, nor thoroughly a personal wiki, nor strictly a digital garden, nor utterly a zettelkasten. It is more of a constantly changing hybrid of all of them that emerged over time from the little things that I do, but for simplicity’s sake, I will just call it a zettelkasten. Personally, it is nothing more than thinking and learning environment where I dump everything. I have decided to publish many of my notes as a way to experiment with public thinking inspired by Andy Matuschak’s working notes.

The start of this project dates back to 3 July 2020, but it wasn’t until January of the following year that I decided to make it a public experiment. This experiment is designed to last ten years…

As far as I can tell, the writing style across zettels are consistently inconsistent. Most of the time notes are taken casually or quickly for my own reference, withal without grammatical constrains; for the same reason, you may find many things confusing or under-explained. Other times, I try to write formally because ultimately, clear writing is the result of clear thinking. While I do try to cite everything that I reference, the citation style is probably going to be inconsistent as well depending on how formal the note is.

To get started navigating these heavily-linked notes, you might find the index very helpful. Keep in mind that these notes are decentralised so things are all over the place.

PS. If you see anything confusing, unintelligible, perplexing, unwelcoming, intimidating, infuriating, nauseating, embarrassing, or tiring, my recommendation is to forget about it, for they are probably nothing but another meaningless coincidence that might or might not interest you. Actually, no. I guess can do whatever you want with them.

PPS. In case you are interested, I use Obsidian as my note-taking environment. This website uses Jekyll and is built based on the awesome Digital Garden Jekyll Template by Maxime Vaillancourt with some customisation of my own.

PPPS. This website is still work in (very slow) progress. The majority of zettels are current in the process of some negligent unhurried proofreading or refactoring and will eventually be published somewhen. Meanwhile, many things are still not rendering correctly because Jekyll doesn’t like images and embeds and footnotes and comments and mermaid diagrams and tags written in Obsidian markdown. I will try to fix them (without knowing Ruby) at some point. Also, it will eat up another chunk of time migrating contents from my now old, unmaintained, lumbering, deteriorating, and disintegrating website.

PPPPS. I hope these perfunctory notes can help you in some way and… excuse the mistakes. Sincerely, the author.

PPPPPS. These things are broken and needs fixing: backlink excerpts, block code with unspecified language