Simple Markdown Zettelkasten

image of networked notes

This is a "living essay," a moving picture of my current opinions and links on how to create a markdown based knowledge system. There is a git-based changelog at the bottom.

Goals

To create a portable, maintainable, extendable note-taking system.

Brief

  1. Content in markdown.
  2. Metadata in YAML frontmatter.
  3. Links using [[wikilinks]]

Examples:

Filename: Meaningful Title.md

# Meaningful Title

Complete, singular thought expressed in plain text. Linking is encouraged to
find the [[Border of the Known]].

Related:
- http://useful-links.com/to/link
- References
- [[Related Note]]

Supported Tools

If we maximize portability between applications, we can maximize the longetivity of our system.

I am defining each requirement as part of the above Brief.

Editor Markdown Metadata Wikilinks
Obsidian ✅ ✅ ✅
1Writer ✅ ✅ ✅
zk ✅ ✅ ✅
Notenik ✅ ✅ ✅
Drafts ✅ ❌ ✅
logseq ✅ ❌ ✅

Tools I need to test:

Simple Markdown Zettelkasten

Creativity Systems

My Tools / Scripts

As I have pursued this... I have often wound up creating migration scripts and tools. These will be highly customized to my knowledge base and goals but you may find inspiration or good ideas to steal.

Resources / Acknowledgements

Changelog