The magic of the Antinet is not in how rigid or how fluid it is. The magic is in the roughness of the structure.
This seems to run counter to the ideology propped up by PKM practitioners and so-called “Note-taking experts.” Such people propose systems more analogous to what’s currently trendy. The sexy buzzwords of today are things like decentralization, openness, Atomicity and dynamic systems. Naturally, every PKM expert seemingly integrates such terms into their gospel of notetaking.
Yet Luhmann’s system does not reflect the popular buzzwords of today. It’s not a decentralized, open, atomic, dynamic system.
The Antinet is closer to being the exact opposite, in fact.
It’s centralized—in that you, its creator, make all of the Decisions. [vs. Pair Programming]
It’s closed—in that it’s a cybernetic system wherein each card has its own numeric-alpha address; Therefore, the cards containing numeric-alpha addresses [vs. Alpha-Numeric Address, Slug] are effectively closed inside the system. The system can expand and evolve, yet the expansion and branching happens internally. The roots, stems, and branches of the system grow deeper.
It’s molecular more than atomic. Each note can run onto the next note. The whole one idea per note notion is a myth propagated by Sönke Ahrens. The Antinet is made up of many chain-linked structures [⇒ Making Long Chain of Pages], and they do not subscribe to the idea of strict atomicity.
It’s not a dynamic system. You can’t find-and-replace-all. You can’t updated and delete your thoughts freely on a whim. You can’t refactor your notes (and thereby procrastinate on actually doing work). The Antinet’s structure, including the notes within it, is more marcescent in nature than dynamic (which we’ll cover shortly). (p. 251–252)
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Scott P. Scheper, Antinet Zettelkasten (San Diego, CA: Greenlamp, 2022), pdf 
, p. 251–252)