There have been various requests related to the zettelkasten method, which I think is mainly about improving linking between notes. It would be useful to narrow down the list of features that would make a good zettelkasten plugin in case someone wants to develop it some day (or if we make it part of…

I use Joplin partly for a zettelkasten-system. Existing plugins like quick-link, backlink or the visual graph plugin already help a lot. The link-features you mentioned sound very helpfull too. On the other hand at the moment it is more of a problem to realize the static-linear side of my zettelkas…

Personally, I find Luhmann's indexing method to be deeply tied to the physical nature of the index cards he used — a form of clustering information together to aid browsing. I would have my doubts about trying to impose any global order on the notes through their IDs. The moment our notes cease to …

Hi, Thank you for this interesting post. I have tried a lot of things in this area and I think stacking is interesting but not enough. I think that if some people like Obsidian for the Zettelkasten it is because of the power of exploration of the graph produced from the links between the notes. The…

[image] bepolymathe: Normally, the idea of a Zettelkasten is to connect so-called "atomic" notes, i.e. short ones. But it is not uncommon, when you start working with this tool, to want to write longer documents. Then comes the question of linking to a specific part of a document and not only to…

One of the features I'm missing, that might also play along nicely here, is a new kind of view mode that would take all the currently filtered notes (i.e. the contents of the current notebook, or search results) and display them in one big, scrollable chunk. So if I have 5 shorter notes on the same …

[image] laurent: Make it easier to link to a note - for example use Goto Anything to find the note, and insert the link from it. IMHO, out of your list, this (i.e. quick linking) is the only relevant one. Additionally support for back-links is required (e.g. a pane view of all notes linking t…

Hi, [image] Prinplup: (i.e. quick linking) This is already possible with the quick links plugin . [image] Prinplup: (e.g. a pane view of all notes linking to the current one) This is already possible with the Backlinks plugin although it would be nice to improve the type of contextual…

Hi, I use Joplin as a zettelkasten rather extensively. However, I'm a simple-minded non-programmer type of user, so many of the ideas discussed here are over my head. From my naive users' perspective, then, at this time I am LONGING for the following features (in order of priority) before any bells…

This whole thread fascinates me, this is just the kind of stuff that attracted me to Joplin. In a way I was looking for an alternative to Scrivener, but it amounts to the same thing, organizing and cross-referencing ideas. This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but if you select your five note…

What would make a good zettelkasten plugin?

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Paulmicha 8 June 2021 19:57 6

Something like Embed any search - with content! seems appropriate to strike a balance between atomicity and longer documents.

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What would make a good zettelkasten plugin?

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