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I've recently had much more luck with https://johnnydecimal.com/ , mirroring content structure across all my devices and even physically.
For anyone who wants the gist of Zettelkasten, I've just finished reading How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens. Here's my rather brief summary of the process: * You create fleeting notes to capture ideas as they happen. They should be short lived notes that don't become the main store of your knowledge. * You create literature notes as your read material. These should include your own thoughts on highlighted passa…
After lots of trial/error and at the end of the rabbit hole I found Emacs with org-roam [2].
It has a steep learning-curve and often seems outdated, but it is also very powerful, has VIM hotkeys, and allows me to create the academic workflow I want - so far I can automatically create a note from my Zotero .bib library, fill it based on a template and the insert all my annotations from the associated PDF. Afterwards I also semi-automatically extract the references from that PDF, insert them into the annotations and then start to link everything into my Zettelkasten system.
Sometimes I wish I just stayed with VSCode/Markdown, but then I remember that I can now put "elisp" on my resumee :)
Overall I think that the "new" note-taking/Zettelkasten-systems is very cool and useful, but I wish someone would come along and create "the next big thing" which in my opinion is multi-dimensional notes.
Tiddlywiki/Tiddlyroam [4,5], TheBrain[6] and even Scrivener [7] seem like a step in the right direction, but they also make some other things overly complicated (convoluted UI, no plug/play export, bad editors, ...).
I want to be able to freely take notes on my computer the same way I can do on paper, and then be able to "super-charge" them by linking, aggregating, searching them. At the moment notes are "one-dimensional", i.e. I can only write from top to bottom. Compare it to paper where I can freely change my style of writing, add drawing, annotations, change directions, ... Writing on the computer just feels very restricting.
1: https://dendron.so/ 2: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam 3: https://github.com/inukshuk/anystyle 4: https://tiddlywiki.com/ 5: https://tiddlyroam.org/ 6: https://www.thebrain.com/ 7: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview
For VSC there is also Dendron [1], which I found nicer than Foam. After lots of trial/error and at the end of the rabbit hole I found Emacs with org-roam [2]. It has a steep learning-curve and often seems outdated, but it is also very powerful, has VIM hotkeys, and allows me to create the academic workflow I want - so far I can automatically create a note from my Zotero .bib library, fill it based on a template and t…
If it works the same way then is it a case of installing the extension with little config after that?
I'm not opposed to switching again
I'd love to give it a go,but that's a bit of a necessity for me.
Admittedly perhaps notion for fleeting notes, with a foam setup for managing permanent notes wheb at mt desktop may be a good compromise
I'm hoping something good is going to come out of notions backlinks support. $15/m is pretty steep on roam, and I do prefer notion for most things
So the author writes their notes in mark down with a VS code extension and stores them on GitHub? Is there more to this that I'm not getting?
So the author writes their notes in mark down with a VS code extension and stores them on GitHub? Is there more to this that I'm not getting?
What I will say is I am in favor of anything that encourages people to write and create versus just consuming content. If fiddling with a new system encourages this, that is great.
I'm looking into making my own software Zettelkasten solution. Anyone have feedback on what they like or dislike about the software they are already using?
I'm looking into making my own software Zettelkasten solution. Anyone have feedback on what they like or dislike about the software they are already using?