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Re:Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge mana... by bachmeier on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:06AM (#23724630)
> what solves the problem for us is not a knowledge base, but search

There are problems with search: you have to know to search for something, and you have to know how to search for it. In some cases this is an issue, in some it isn't. I have had many times over the years where I reviewed my notes and reminded myself of things I had completely forgotten. Search is useless in that case.

But in any event, there's no conflict between a knowledge base and search. They are different things and you can search a knowledge base.

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Re:Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge mana... by focus2020 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @08:25AM (#23731798)
Search can not be avoided. The alternative to search is to go through everything that has been read which is not feasible. Tagging is the only solution. The user has to remember the tags which is referred to as context in zettlekeaten method. I could not see any workaround to this problem
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