Rebuilding post-Long-COVID brain with Zk. (I hope)

HOrdover

Hi there,
I honestly don't recall how I stumbled on Zettelkasten, but it's been burbling in the back of my mind for awhile. I've been clawing my way back to functionality after 18months of fog and pain, and while, it's better, it's not 100%.

I'm ADHD and for my entire live I've been able to hold many MANY ideas/tasks in my head at once.

The worst it got with Long-COVID was realizing that I couldn't keep even half of a 6-digit confirmation code in my mind long enough to type it in.
I'm back to being able to remember 6-digits long enough to be useful, but that doesn't mean I'm up to speed with writing/researching like I used to.

For the last 18+ years I've hosted an annotated audiobook podcast for book lovers who work with their hands and thus need to read with their ears. (Public domain books--the ones you were supposed to read in high school, but... ). I do the contextual, historical, literary research and provide the nuggets as audio notes before and after chapter audio. "Teach to the Joke" is my motto.

obv, that's a lot of research/remembering to do on a weekly basis.

I was able to pull off doing Emma during 2024, but what used to take me 1–2 hours was taking upwards of 6. I'm down to 3± now, which is better but not great—especially because I've been releasing Mary Wollstonecraft's genius (but challenging) "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" since November 7th this year. It's a heavy lift.

I'm hoping to learn from all y'all so I don't reinvent the wheel (no time for that rabbit hole) and have downloaded The Archive. I was playing around with Amplenote, but that seemed like more than I need right now for building a working memory.

If anyone has videos/blog posts to share that you think might be of use, please feel free to share (I've already read everything on the Zk.de site). I'm not precious about learning—nor does being wrong scare me—so hesitate not to re-focus me.

Hoping you're well in your neck of the world,
Heather in Eastern PA

GeoEng51

Hello and welcome to the ZK forum! It's always good to hear from new people. You should make a lot of friendly contacts here!

andang76

welcome

ctietze

Welcome aboard!

Reading three paragraphs of your recovery journey does not show the frustration and work that went into it, but the progress you made to claw back what you were able to do before sounds remarkable. Fingers crossed that you'll halve the time it takes to do your work even further in 2025 and beyond!