recently tried it out as well, and i'm really impressed [especially with the ability to import highlights from instapaper and the kindle clippings file]
ha, yeah very muich in the same boat. been following some of the zettel blogs for years and have read an ungodly number of posts, but it still hasn't entirely clicked — that said, I've moved entirely to plain text for note-taking and it's been a godsend moving out of evernote.