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Summary of Thoughts on Metadata
I've spent many hours scouring through this forum picking up tips and tricks from a number of great contributors. I wanted to share my own thoughts on how to structure the headers of Zettels: After much thought, testing and experimenting, here are the conclusions I came to for myself: * Metadata are best kept within a YAML… -
What the head of a Zettel should look like
I searched a bit in the forum and found bits and bobs about what elements to have at the very beginning of a zettel – this is what I would lean towards at the moment: # Note title [[Zettel-ID]]Tags: #tag1 #tag2 The Zettel-ID in brackets is useful for quickly looking for backlinks to the note currently opened: notes that… -
My very noobish attempt at making atomic extracts from a PDF
Hi friends, I work with PDFs a lot in my academic work. Mostly reading journal articles. Commonly, I make highlights of important parts of the text. To support my writing, I want to extract each highlight as an individual, atomic text file. Doing this by hand would be tedious. I have very novice code skills, but I know… -
Re: The reference manager for note-taking
How do you proceed for each zettel ? Something like this ? # uuid my example title#tag1 #tag2body of the zettel@fake_citation I mean, for each atomic note based on reading a book, do you mention the reference (like example above) ? -
Re: What the head of a Zettel should look like
This is my format for new content notes. This puts all metadata at the end of the note and keeps them out of the way when I'm creating a note. I originally found that I was distracted and would right away start a note then try adding tags and links even before I had all the content flushed out. Wrong priorities. A personal… -
Re: Zettel templates
In the end, I create the filename by hand, select all, copy, move to the body of the note and trigger this Alfred snippet: # {clipboard}Tags: #tag1 #tag2Ref: [[]]{cursor}ContentSource: I'll probably change this as I get used to it, but for now it works just fine. -
Re: Introducing my new android app for zettelkasten : Zettel Notes
Hey @myn_user. A developer needs reviews
I like it when someone points out a bug or suggests a feature. Regarding your issues: * Author * Now in update (v1.0.5), authors are searched from note content, just like tags. * Yes, you have to use @ for denoting authors anywhere in yaml or in content. * You can define… -
Re: My first Zettle
@broskees , welcome to the forum. My approach to Zettelkasten is simple. All of my zettels are plain txt files in Dropbox and have this structure, 1st_line_description.Updated: 2021-02-12 Tags: #tag1 #tag_i# TITLE[FIN] I use aText on macOS to write all this. Whenever I type \\zettel the text above appears and leaves the… -
Re: Idea for a script to make structured link lists easier to browse
@will if your footers are consistent couldn't you just search for the UID, the following square brackets, return character, and the arrow character (sorry, don't know how that would look in regex)? I'm just wondering because I don't include the UID in the title header in the text file (although it is in the file name… -
Re: Script to print all tags from .txt files (run from archive directory)
@bvs, it looks like the part for filtering out dot files does not work: When I ran the script, it gave me a " #tag1" and a " #tag2" among the results, which none of my The Archive notes contain. I then realized those tags were contained in a ".saved_searches.zks" file that some other program had created that I had tried at…