There has already been discussion of introducing folders for use with plugins. I would like to see an easy way to place multiple notes within a folder inside the sidebar. Specifically, I write a lot of literature or reference notes, and for a long book I sometimes write a single note for each chapter. If I am reading multiple books simultaneously, those notes for one book could be quite separated. So it would be wonderful if for, say Book A notes, there would be a named folder (named by text "notes for Book A", not a time stamp) containing multiple notes named by the standard identifier, with those notes still being searchable and having all the standard properties of links, keywords, etc. That would mean some or most of those notes would be out of visual time order. So, perhaps there could be a command to remove notes from the folder and thereby have them move back into their usual place in the list. I currently use linking to tie them together, but the folder approach would be more rapid and
suit me more. It would be good if you could hold a key and click multiple file names, then use a command "move to folder". I have seen mention of media/ as a technique but do not understand how to use that. If this solves my issue could someone explain it to me? Thanks!
@Avidreader, I’d suggest that you use structure notes. Make one for each book. On it, you can collect book-specific details like bibliography details, author details, and publishing stuff. Then, list the chapter notes with links. When you select the uid link for the structure note, all the associated notes appear in the note list. This produces what you want: a list of the notes associated with a book altogether, no matter when they were created.
Here is an image of the structure note for part of the Slovic’s super book Nerves and Numbers.
Will Simpson
My zettelkasten is for my ideas, not the ideas of others. I will try to remember this. I must keep doing my best even though I'm a failure. My peak cognition is behind me. One day soon, I will read my last book, write my last note, eat my last meal, and kiss my sweetie for the last time. kestrelcreek.com
@AvidReader - Folders have a significant drawback: in a folder structure, a note can be in one and only one folder.
You may get inspiration from gmail. In gmail, messages can be organized with labels. At the surface, labels in gmail are like folders. But they are much more versatile, as any message can have several labels. If you change the way you want to organize your messages, you don't need to break the previous organization and redispatch the messages, you just need to add the new organization by adding new labels, and both organizations can live at the same time.
That's why in practice, labels are often much better than folders.
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There has already been discussion of introducing folders for use with plugins. I would like to see an easy way to place multiple notes within a folder inside the sidebar. Specifically, I write a lot of literature or reference notes, and for a long book I sometimes write a single note for each chapter. If I am reading multiple books simultaneously, those notes for one book could be quite separated. So it would be wonderful if for, say Book A notes, there would be a named folder (named by text "notes for Book A", not a time stamp) containing multiple notes named by the standard identifier, with those notes still being searchable and having all the standard properties of links, keywords, etc. That would mean some or most of those notes would be out of visual time order. So, perhaps there could be a command to remove notes from the folder and thereby have them move back into their usual place in the list. I currently use linking to tie them together, but the folder approach would be more rapid and
suit me more. It would be good if you could hold a key and click multiple file names, then use a command "move to folder". I have seen mention of media/ as a technique but do not understand how to use that. If this solves my issue could someone explain it to me? Thanks!
@Avidreader, I’d suggest that you use structure notes. Make one for each book. On it, you can collect book-specific details like bibliography details, author details, and publishing stuff. Then, list the chapter notes with links. When you select the uid link for the structure note, all the associated notes appear in the note list. This produces what you want: a list of the notes associated with a book altogether, no matter when they were created.
Here is an image of the structure note for part of the Slovic’s super book Nerves and Numbers.
Will Simpson
My zettelkasten is for my ideas, not the ideas of others. I will try to remember this. I must keep doing my best even though I'm a failure. My peak cognition is behind me. One day soon, I will read my last book, write my last note, eat my last meal, and kiss my sweetie for the last time.
kestrelcreek.com
@AvidReader - Folders have a significant drawback: in a folder structure, a note can be in one and only one folder.
You may get inspiration from gmail. In gmail, messages can be organized with labels. At the surface, labels in gmail are like folders. But they are much more versatile, as any message can have several labels. If you change the way you want to organize your messages, you don't need to break the previous organization and redispatch the messages, you just need to add the new organization by adding new labels, and both organizations can live at the same time.
That's why in practice, labels are often much better than folders.
The structure note mentioned by Will is documented in https://zettelkasten.de/posts/three-layers-structure-zettelkasten/ .
Those are great comments and very helpful. Thanks very much!