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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… -
Rethinking my use of UIDs
I’ve tried to follow the discussions around Folgezettel and higher-order notes, but the most interesting thing for me was that it seemed to surface the various different approaches to unique identifiers. When I first began to think of my notes as a Zettelkasten rather than a bunch of random notes, I read a few forum posts… -
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: 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… -
Re: What the head of a Zettel should look like
Plus one for keeping metadata at the top of the note, because I don't really think of it as being "in the way" there. Also, I have found it useful to have a section of fairly general "back" links and "forward" links at the top, as an easy-to-locate supplement to whatever links appear in the note itself. I should say, the… -
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: What the head of a Zettel should look like
After taking into consideration all your inputs, I'm using this header for now: [[Zettel-ID]] #tag1 #tag2# Note titleNote body * I decided against a YAML-block, because the two --- lines take space away and I won't export notes often. * I decided to put the metadata right at the beginning to not have "clutter" between the…