The Best App for Building a Zettelkasten

How Do You Even Choose?

There are hundreds of articles on Medium about building a Zettelkasten, using Obsidian or RoamResearch, or Notion, to create your “second brain;” hundreds of writers who’ve read How to Take Smart Notes[1] and have been inspired by the implications.

And so many people wonder: which app do I choose to start building? How do I know which one is right for me?

Tiago Forte talks about Evernote, RoamResearch, and Notion with the metaphor of a librarian, an architect, and a…