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zetteldeft
Emacs Lisp2019–2022
EFLS / zetteldeft
zetteldeft
A Zettelkasten system! Or rather, some functions on top of the emacs deft package.
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A Zettelkasten system! Or rather, some functions on top of the emacs deft package.
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesI've seen it suggested before that while 'tasks' need to be well-structured, reference/notes don't.
I like the idea of not trying to store notes in a hierarchy, but using search and/or tags to try and reference (or discover relations between) notes.
I like the article's emphasis on "how do I want to access this later?". TBH Sometimes I've looked up previous bookmarks or notes, and they didn't have the keywords or tags I was expecting.
I'd suggest https://github.com/EFLS/zetteldeft as another project which more/less supports some of the workflow suggested in the article.
That said, yeah, I do prefer pen and paper for worklog notes.
In How to take smart notes with Org modeI'm a little late to this thread, but since you are using emacs and deft, you might be interested in this package I created: https://github.com/efls/zetteldeft
I aim to polish it a bit more before publishing it to MELPA, but you might find it interesting already.
In Zettelkästen?