Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”

Re:Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain” by jmiskovic on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:44AM (#23524861)

Can you mention how you organize files themselves? Things like subdirectories, naming, solving name clashes, and how do you decide when to split content into two or more files.

I've always struggled with mapping any note organization mapping into strict directory structure with ascii file names being the only meta-data. I'm currently using Trilium Notes which solves most of these by using SQLite instead of filesystem.

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Re:Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain” by laingc on Monday June 15, 2020 @05:44AM (#23525549)

No subdirectories for notes, everything is flat. I have three directories: zettel for the Zettel, Daten for the data, and Kasten for software/scripts.

Zettel are named as follows: z{%Y%m%d%H%M%S}_{slugified title}.md

Tags are formatted as +{hyphenated tag name}.

Scripts parse all the Zettel, construct a bipartite graph of tags and Zettel, and populate tables in the index with lists of Zettel under each tag, a visualisation of the graph, various other meta statistics etc.

The point (for me) of my Zettelkasten is that through links and tags, the structure of the notes is emergent rather than dictated a priori.

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