> "I tried PARA, then CODE, then Zettelkasten — each made me feel I was bending my work to fit, not the other way around." ^pain A personal trust pain about methodology adoption. The framework feels intellectually appealing in the abstract but doesn't map to the rhythms of consulting, research, or founder chaos. The worker either contorts their practice to fit, or abandons the framework — and feels personally inadequate for the latter, when the misfit is the actual cause. ## Discovery questions - "You've probably tried a few productivity or note-taking frameworks - which one survived contact with your actual work, and why didn't the others?" - "What about your work doesn't fit cleanly into any system you've tried?" ^discovery-questions ## Examples - Maggie Appleton on why Zettelkasten felt like overhead for design work, leading to a lighter "visual garden" approach.[^1] [^1]: https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history