VSCode Mastery, Set Up Your Second Brain First

Look, right now all AI is predicting a pattern. But the problem is, you should not delegate your meta-language object forming in mastering any subject via turning over that responsibility to the AI tools that are out there. What you instead should do is use vscode to implement a second brain workspace where to make notes and knowledge management about the computer language and framework you are mastering.

In this article, I am going to show you how to use the Foam plugin and some other plugins to implement the zettelkasten note-taking system in a private vscode workspace. And as a side benefit, the best way to set up vscode for awesome Markdown document authoring.

What Is Zettelkasten Note-Taking

Niklas Luhmann invented a non-digital note-taking and knowledge management system that he called zettelkasten to produce over 60 books and 600 articles on social sciences subjects. Roam Research created a commercial application implementing zettelkasten named Roam. Roam Research also created a free vscode plugin called Foam to implement zettelkasten.

A Zettelkasten note has the following characteristics:

- A unique hypertext address, usually a time-stamp title or a unique title.