How to use Medium as your ultimate zettelkasten or PKM : yes, Medium!

Arindam Basu
2 min readOct 8, 2021

Zettelkasten is all over the place these days. People are writing about note taking and zettels and apps such Obsidian, Logseq, Roam, … (links deliberately not posted).

Yet, if you think from the first principles, all you need is basically a system where you will “externalise your thoughts” (as Srinivasa Rao writes), add tags, and network them, in a way that you can retrieve them when you want and where you want (just in time and just in place). Which means, in our digital age, your zettels will need to be at…

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Arindam Basu

I am a Medical Doctor and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury. Founder of TwinMe,