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Re:How to take smart notes with Org mode by giloux on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:31AM (#22341686)
I'm in the process of moving all my organization stuff into org-mode. This includes agenda, todo lists, project management and notes. This is a long process with a lot of fine tunings and try/errors. But, for me it's like what you said about writing : it's in the process of doing it that you think. This helps me understand my actual needs. And emacs/orgmode is so powerfull and customizable that it's a very goos tool to do that.

Some weeks ago, I read your series of articles about org-mode workflow. I was especially insterested by the one about zettelkasten. This was a trigger for me to switch my notes into org-mode. So I would like first to thank you for your good quality articles !

What interests me in your new package is the automatic link/backlink detection between notes. This is a really great feature I was missing that in the other packages. I'm currently using zetteldeft and I insert hashtags into my notes to be able to search them by tag.

I would like to try org-roam. My question is : in what way should I modify my current note files to be compatible with org-roam ?

Re:How to take smart notes with Org mode by jethroksy on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:02AM (#22347359)
Glad you enjoyed the articles!

> My question is : in what way should I modify my current note files to be compatible with org-roam ?

In contrast to zetteldeft, the links in org-roam are real file links. This means you need to replace all of the zetteldeft links with actual org file-links.

That should be all the changes required I think.

Re:How to take smart notes with Org mode by giloux314 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:30PM (#22360055)
I just gave it a try. It is so easy to insert a link/backlink ! Adopted.
Re:How to take smart notes with Org mode by jethroksy on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:26AM (#22363901)
good to hear (: feel free to make feature requests/bug reports on the repo. It should become a lot more stable soon, then we can start making it more awesome.