My impression of this book so far: the fragility of everyone's moods, the precise descriptions of flowers, gestures, and senses, all make this book feel very "spring." But in a "spring showers/snow" (lol) sort of way, not a "beginning of new things" way. There's a sense that everything is kind of doomed.

From the blurb, I thought this book would be more plot-heavy, but it's structured more like vignettes that very slowly add up to the story.

My main issue is that I can't stand Kiyoaki 😭

I couldn't find any posts about this, just curious if anybody else uses the zettelkasten method or something similar for taking notes?

Zettelkasten is a note-taking system sometimes referred to as being a "second brain" that remembers things your first brain forgets, "develops sentience", and can hold conversations with you. It works REALLY WELL for me (adhd w/hoarder tendencies) because in this system, you do not have to be perfectly organized, and in fact it's actually better if you are not: chaos is a feature not a bug. There is no "right" way to organize anything (and certainly no "wrong" way), and the more unconnected notes you keep near each other, the better. It uses a tagging system that allows you to follow a trail to any note you want no matter where you've filed it, and also to develop ideas connecting concepts that may not initially seem to be connected.

Here’s the post that hooked me: — https://www.eadeverell.com/zettelkasten/ There's quite a bit of other information about it online (and in books, now), although a considerable amount skews to digital versions that use apps like Notion. There's something that works really well for me about keeping things low-tech/analog, so I use index cards!

From a friend (who also happens to have adhd with hoarding tendencies): "i'm drawn to the intuitive aspect of it, the sense in which it's both an analog computing system and a physical manifestation of the unconscious, and also the fact that it can potentially operate as kind of occult device for guidance and introspection. i like the idea of externalizing internal processes of connectivity, and it makes a lot of sense that it would appeal to you and me as people who have fraught/complex relationships with stuff."

More resources I found helpful: — http://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes — https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/8350/8270
— https://zettelkasten.de/posts/collectors-fallacy/ (LOLOLOLOL, hoarders read this) — https://writingcooperative.com/zettelkasten-how-one-german-scholar-was-so-freakishly-productive-997e4e0ca125
— https://zettelkasten.de/posts/no-categories/
— https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/ (a few posts in here) — https://fortelabs.co/blog/how-to-take-smart-notes/
— https://www.zettlr.com/post/what-is-a-zettelkasten ("In fact, the more you read on how to do a Zettelkasten, the less you'll actually know, because a lot of it depends on intuition and self-observation")

Here is Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten archive: — https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/zettelkasten/inhaltsuebersicht — http://ds.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/viewer/ppnresolver?id=ZKLuhm

I feel like I need to use 125% of my brain to read Virginia Woolf - because of the stream of consciousness, if I lose focus for a little bit, I'll realize that 5 pages have passed without me absorbing a single thing 🥲 To me this is something you should read when you have absolutely nothing going on for the rest of your day.

I really like reading about some of the topics she touches on though, so I'll power through!