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+1 for "use search instead of organization". I've been taking notes for 2 years, zettelkasten-style, and 90% of them are just dumped in the same directory, wit
by scambier 5y ago
+1 for "use search instead of organization".
I've been taking notes for 2 years, zettelkasten-style, and 90% of them are just dumped in the same directory, without links or tags. If I'm looking for something and remember that I might have that in my notes, I just search for it.
That also implies that, when writing a note, I sometimes add a line with a few related keywords and synonyms.
- raelmiu 5y agoHow though? People say this like search is simple, but how do you search for things? I'm using Roam and I still have this issue.
- d-gearloose 5y agoIf you're on a Linux system and the notes are just text files a grep -rn . -e 'search term' is probably sufficient. Use -rnw If you're looking for whole words.
- leephillips 5y agoAbsolutely. And if you do this a lot it might be worth substituting ripgrep for grep.
- scambier 5y agoI spent some time to build my own web-based markdown editor, and was using minisearch[0] to index and do fuzzy search on my notes. I've recently switched to Obsidian and plan to make a similar extension in the next weeks. [0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/minisearch https://www.npmjs.com/package/minisearch