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I'm still going to them with basic questions regularly, as do many others.Īnother possible model is the rbbt Zotero/bibtex to Rmarkdown connector ( ). Despite what it may seem, I am still one such newbie. I think the entire community remembers what it was like to try wrapping their minds around Zettelkasten for the first time, so they're especially welcoming and receptive to newbie questions. In fact, I wonder if Ahrens planned for people to do exactly that when he was writing the book.Īnd if you have questions, I've found /r/Zettelkasten to be super friendly. It feels a bit like a chicken-and-egg problem at first, but it works.

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If you're curious enough that you want to get started, I recommend reading How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens and trying to take notes as you go.

very welcome! I spent a couple hours trying to find the best introduction to Zettelkasten, and that's what I settled on. A lot of thought has clearly been put into them.)Īnyway, Obsidian is on your radar now, so I've at least achieved my minimum goal.

The three that I linked to are as functional as they are beautiful. It's exactly what they're trying to be, and they'd be worse at achieving their goals if they took it further. But still, they're all basically minimalist notepads. Maybe they have grammar checking, maybe they have a 'focus mode,' or maybe they have other features besides different UIs to distinguish them from each other. I think that's why it's becoming so popular so quickly.īy comparison, all the regular markdown editors I've played with over the years – iA Writer, Typora, Dillinger, and others – are beautifully stripped down notepads that only have syntax highlighting and/or live export previews. It still looks pretty minimalist overall, but the additional functionality is actually pretty astounding. For example, it automatically detects backlinks and has a built in graph to show the web of connections between Zettels (notes). Obsidian is Zettelkasten-focused like that, but has even more features. It has features like linking between files and a navigation sidebar designed for quickly searching non-hierarchical filing systems. Zettlr already has a lot of Zettelkasten-focused features that make it quite different from most markdown editors. it's very similar to Zettlr, but a bit more ambitious or a bit less minimalist (depending on how you look at it). Even if you don't reach out like I hope you will, maybe some good can come simply from putting it on your radar. I'm just a happy user of it and Zotero who remembers an old conversation about Scrivener and sees an opportunity to head off a repeat of that situation. The idea is simply to open the communication channel.

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'If you avoid X and do Y, then full Zotero integration will be possible' could go a long way.įor right now, I think just writing an email that says something like 'Hello, we're happy to hear you're interested in Zotero integration, just want to let you know that we're receptive to that possibility, let us know when/if you want to talk' would be sufficient. Because Obsidian is still so new, that situation can still be avoided – perhaps with nothing more than an exchange of few emails. It's simply too much to ask of either project.

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The gist of it, if I remember correctly, is that Scrivener made some decisions during it's early days that would essentially require either Zotero or Scrivener to rewrite tons of code from scratch. Why am I bringing all this up now? I remember a conversation about why Scrivener is unlikely to ever have Zotero integration. My hope is that somebody from Zotero might reach out just to establish an open communication channel. Probably won't be all that exciting if you don't use it.Īnyway, I wanted to put this on your radar because over in their forums, one of their most visible team members enthusiastically indicated that they'd be interested in Zotero integration. You don't have to use the Zettelkasten system to use Obsidian, but that's what it's designed for. It's a fascinating, weird, and – in my opinion – very promising system of taking and organizing notes. It's hard to explain why Obsidian is so exciting without understanding Zettelkasten. (I recently learned that it's led by the pair who make Dynalist, if anybody's familiar with that.) The developers are astonishingly productive, so it already seems remarkably polished and has a sizable and fast-growing user base.

Within the Zettelkasten community, a new text editor is quickly becoming popular.