Fran Armijo Farmijo | Random thoughts blog

7/3/2025 ~ 2 min read

Just discovered Zettelkasten

Seems that the originary idea of this blog (retain thoughts and lessons) is implemented on its own framework with rules


Originally, I created this blog for random thoughts that I had in mind and wanted to register in a safer area that the typical post-it that all of us use when we need to remember something.

I don’t think that anyone is actually reading this. If you are, write me a mail to farmijo16@gmail.com. Will be funny to know if the traffic that appears in google analytics is more than random bots.

It usually implied write a quick note (that could be a tweet), evolve that note into a draft article, and evolve that note into a post. Usually those posts don’t even were posted, and most of them were kept on the draft status with no more news about it.

So, then I learned that something called Zettlekasten existed. Is basically a way to store knowledge of your own:

- You write a quick idea or you develop an idea through the book, article, whatever you’ve been reasoning.

- You write that idea with your own words (called a Zettel)

- Last, the magic pill: you relate that Zettel to other Zettels. Not a category, a direct relation.

Boom, you have now a second brain. This in combination with Obsidian (or another note tool with graph view) is amazing.


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Hi, I'm Fran. I'm a software engineer and musician based in Barcelona.