I'm a little late to this thread, but since you are using emacs and deft, you might be interested in this package I created: https://github.com/efls/zetteldeft

I'm a little late to this thread, but since you are using emacs and deft, you might be interested in this package I created: https://github.com/efls/zetteldeft https://github.com/efls/zetteldeft I aim to polish it a bit more before publishing it to MELPA, but you might find it interesting already.