📓 That first bike ride in spring 😮‍💨 But super excited for all that is to come 🚴

📓 Last week tasted pu’er for the first time. And tbh I’m surprised I’m quite enjoying it. Today another first - aged Liu Bao. Seems I’ve discovered dark tea as my equivalent for black coffee in the world of tea.

📓 I’ve been lagging behind with my yearly review of 2025 but just completed it. In the spirit of micro habits and not overthinking a grand blog post, if I shared just one of my takeaways it would be this one:

⏳ There is no need to rush, but do use the time you have

📓 Just watched Dune: Part 2. And even adaptation issues aside, I’m thoroughly disappointed with it. Beautiful but felt rushed and shallow. I wished I liked it so much.

📓 So proud of Finland’s team in the basketball europeans 🇫🇮🏀. A dramatic loss to Greece in the bronze medals game. The final seconds reinforced the display of full dedication and maximum effort throughout the whole tournament.

📓 Nice surprise on TV. Tell me what is your favorite movie and why is it Terminator 2? 🦾

📓 Happy with what’s become my staple weekend bike ride this summer. Perfect weather and just bliss riding through Helsinki. I also love its shape. 🫶

📓 After getting used to green tea as my daily driver, brewing anything at higher temp just feels barbarian. Ranting while waiting for my ginger lemon infusion to cool off to humane levels. 🍵

📓 An amazing spring day for a bike ride 🚴Weather is shifting between sunny and overcast, extremely pleasant. Rode through Helsinki’s central park North-South axis - 20k of 100% bike-friendly route. Pit stop at my ex-local bar for a non-alc beverage and looping back.

📓 I inhaled Running Point over the last 2 evenings. 📺 Helped me decompress after relatively hectic work days. Laughter is the best medicine.

At the beginning of the year I started working on improving my note taking setup in Obsidian. I dove (again) into personal knowledge management systems, Zettlekasten, atomic notes, etc. I’m not too dogmatic about any of these topics but enjoy learning about them and incorporating what resonates in my note taking.

I haven’t posted on my blog in a bit. So, I decided to dip into my Zettlekasten-ish cards and lower the barrier for posting by sharing what I’ve already written.

🗃️ Easy entry points to a PKMS are key to engagement

Engaging with a Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS), e.g. one based on Zettlekasten, could be overwhelming. Once a PKMS grows it can be challenging to decide how to work on it, as it may feel like a giant unorganized mess. The creator of Zettlekasten used index cards with potential entry points to his system. The index cards were not excessive, as once you enter the system you could quickly traverse it in unexpected and expanding directions via links.

Thus the main idea here is that easy entry points to the PKMS are key to engaging with it. Having many threads to grab and enter the system removes a huge point of friction and potential procrastination.

In my personal system, potential entry points include:

• 🏠 Home note which aggregates a lot of the following entry points
• 📔 Daily notes in Journal
• 🌐 Maps of Content (MoCs)
• ⛵ Boat notes - floating notes of unshaped thoughts, ideas, questions, etc.
• 🗂️ Unreviewed sources, such as articles, podcasts, etc.
• 🌱 Sprout cards in need of more fleshing out to become evergreen notes

📓 A few days ago I stopped drinking coffee for a while to give my sleep quality a boost. I’m bummed at how brutal caffeine withdrawal is. This is only strengthening my resolve to skip coffee for longer. Eventually I’d to return to a cup a day. ☕️ Right now I sleep better and function worse. 🤦🏻‍♂️

📓 I’m the kind of person who’ll remember a couple-of-years-old Reddit thread and go post an update. It ain’t much but it’s honest work.