With the command to add a backlink, I would say that we have a working zettelkasten system that has essentially all the features of the original paper system, with better searching and reorganizing abilities.
1. Zettels (notes) that include an ID and links, including backlinks. 2. Although the zettel IDs do not follow the original system, where the number encoded a note's location, with closely related IDs generally physically close - this is known as co-location in library science - the nodes are presented in hte outline view in an equivalent way that is much easier to work with. 3. Zettels can contain links to other zettels, and these links can be traversed at a keystroke. 4. Zettel text and headlines can be searched. 5. Tags can be added and searched on. 6. If you follow my suggestions about using the @path directive for organizing nodes and @rst for the zettels, you can easily save the whole collection to a tree of text files. Sadly, the Nav tab search doesn't work for headlines that start with directives, so that would be a reason not to use them. For all I know, Leo may have some script or command that accomplishes the same export capability; I just don't know what it is at present. 7. If you include those directives, and create the file system tree, the whole tree can be imported into my bookmarks manager, which provides other views of the relations between headings. 8. If you make the zettel text to be Restructured Text, it will render nicely using the Viewrendered or Viewrendered3 plugin. It's easy to make these kinds of notes be proper RsT, and thecommands I worked up for inserting node IDs and timestamps do insert them as RsT. So I say we're ready to rock and roll! On Sunday, February 23, 2020 at 2:26:09 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: > > > > On Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 10:11:51 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: > >> >> I have developed two commands that insert the node id and current >> timestamp into the zettel. I'm already using them in my little experimental >> zettelkasten. The results look like this: >> >> :id: TomP.20200221221759.1 >> :timestamp: 02/22/2020 08:25:29 >> >> Since the creation time is included in the node id, we are free to use >> the timestamp to record the modification time if that's what we want. >> >> I should be able to have a command to navigate to a node id soon. The >> examples of links I gave in my earlier post work, but they won't keep >> working if the structure of the outline gets changed. That's not >> desirable. Using the node id, the details of the outline structure won't >> matter. >> >> I now have a command with keyboard shortcut that works like this: >> > > 1. Put the cursor on a line that starts with ":link:" If it's not on > such a line, nothing will happen. > 2. Hit the shortcut key. I am using Alt+F6. > 3. The selection point jumps to the node with that ID. > 4. If the target node does not include a :link: back to the starting > point, one is inserted. > > So this gives us automatic backlinks. No plugins required. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/a3dccd13-8a37-4bfb-9c99-e31cf61ea8ac%40googlegroups.com.
