As most of you know, I’m a big fan of the Zettelkasten idea and of its org-roam implementation in Emacs. There are several videos on org-roam, including the System Crafter series, that will help you get started. Matt Williams also has a video that provides motivation for why you might want to explore org-roam and a few words on how to get started.
What makes Williams’ video unique is that he’s not really an Emacs user. He’s bounced around between editors and is apparently currently using VS Code. Nonetheless, he likes org-roam and uses Emacs specifically to get access to it.
As an Emacs n00b, Williams had to figure out how to install Emacs and get everything configured. That turned out to be not too hard. He installed Doom Emacs and its dependencies using Homebrew. I’m not sure that’s really easier than just installing or compiling vanilla Emacs and adding a couple of lines to your init.el to add the org-roam package. Regardless, neither method too hard even for a beginner.
The video is 13 minutes, 49 seconds so it should be easy to schedule some time to watch it. The majority of the video is devoted to why you should embrace org-roam so there’s not a lot of technical complexity and it’s easy to watch.