[ColinWright]

I'm using the wiki I wrote in about 1998 when I first encountered the C2 wiki. It uses plain text files, and in addition to using mark-down style link syntax, the latest version auto-links from free-text without requiring any special markup. That reduces the friction further.

But what you are saying here is "Yes, it's basically just a wiki, but using plain text files underneath, and without using a specific app or database".

This isn't a criticism, it's just me hunting for understanding from the huge heap of hype. Every description I read seems to lead me to:

(a) It's just a wiki, and

(b) It's not doing what Luhmann says his Zettelkasten did.

So I'm finding the excitement very mysterious, and keen to find out what I'm missing.