This is my personal blog where I write about whatever is on my mind. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Apps and systems in the note-taking and productivity space
- Designing and building for the web
- All sorts of books and articles I find noteworthy
🧑🏼💻 I’m a freelance Web Designer and Developer. 🛠 My favorite tools include Tailwind CSS, Statamic CMS, Alpine JS and, more recently, various AI tools for rapid prototyping and designing in code. 🌎 I care about accessibility for all. 🔀 I enjoy working at the intersection of design and code. ❤️ I’m happily married and father of two wonderful kids, born 2017 and 2019. 🏃♂️ I like trail running, gravel and mountain biking. 🏕 I love being outdoors and vacation usually means camping. 🤓 I’m spending too much time sorting notes and switching tools and systems for my PKM. ⏱️ I try to keep a /now and a /uses page up to date.
Why “verzettelt”?
Verzetteln can be translated as being all over the place. That’s how I often feel like in my head. I want to be a minimalist, yet I’ve used 15 notetaking apps in the past 5 years, often multiple at once.
Despite not adhering to the concept of a Zettelkasten in Luhmann’s sense, I like the image of a Zettel (=slip-note) for all my scattered notes, both digital and in my head. I’ve had the domain zettel.org registered for a while, so I figure that’s a nice use case.
Contact
The best way to reach me is email: hello@wentsch.me
I do have a accounts on Mastodon (@klickreflex@freiburg.social) and Bluesky (@klickreflex.bsky.social), but I’m not very active on either platform. I’ve left the shitholes that are run by fascists and their friends a long time ago, so if anybody on X/IG/Threads/FB/TikTok claims to be me, they are not.
Imprint & Privacy
Daniel Wentsch
Sarwürckerstr. 7
79117 Freiburg, German
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