But I still get bogged down with my stack of “cards”, often digging myself into a rhetorical hole from which I can’t escape. The zettelkasten method of note-taking has given me a simple way to organize my research and bring a lot more clarity to the information I’ve collected. But I struggle with research in a way that’s more like hoarding than sense-making. Will consider that further.I want to write faster. Now you’ve said it, though, I also see the value of an ID that can be easily generated beyond Drafts for interoperability with references/files in other apps. I typically don’t adjust titles once I’ve committed a note to my system, so I’d figured a Drafts UUID and title offered the best of both worlds, and that’s how I’d configured that cross-linking action. I’ve blocked on that somewhat, simply because timestamps aren’t descriptive. Totally appreciate the value of a good timestamp.
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Used to live between nvALT and FoldingText up until the first iPad Pro was released. I rarely power up any of my legacy Macs any more. I should also say that the vast majority of my writing/thinking/reading is managed via iOS. I’m a lurker on the Zettlekasten/Archive forums, but I admittedly need to do a bit more of a deep dive, and should probably strike up some dialogue there for further direction. Yes! I’ve attempted to implement Zettlekasten a few times, but I don’t feel as if I’ve truly grokked the benefits. And I’m happy it works for other people as a more comprehensive notes database, because that helps keep it viable! But I long ago decided that I don’t want to be locked into a single app, or have to export and reimport my data to get it out.īut as long as Drafts stays useful for creating text and doing things with that text through automation, I’m thrilled with it (and willing to pay for it, needless to say). I really like Drafts for creating text, and I’d be lost without it on my phone (though I also use 1Writer - again, with the same Dropbox folder of plain text notes). Hashtags and some crude project metadata (all in plain text) let me connect notes in various ways, especially with some help from Keyboard Maestro, TextExpander and a little Python here and there.
I can run scripts on notes or groups of notes.
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I can open a note in Marked to get a much broader range of Markdown, HTML and PDF options.
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I could switch from The Archive to nvUltra painlessly (and sometimes go back to The Archive or even nvAlt for one reason or another) because both just use plain text files. I’ve thought about using Drafts for more, but in the end, the database is what leaves me cold. On my Mac, I used The Archive for a while, but now I use the beta of nvUltra, which is also fantastic. I do pretty much the same thing: Drafts for starting most text, now on the Mac as well as my phone. I haven’t yet tried making a script for Drafts to recognize these links, but that might be worth trying. Or you can manually execute the search yourself. Mine look like this:Ī later ] reference or backlinkĪn alternative #201911222025 reference or backlinkĪny app which recognizes the double-bracket search format can make this really fast. This works across paper journals, Drafts, notes, and documents of all kinds.
The system I’ve adopted for linking is what the makers of The Archive use. If you’re trying to create a collected, life-long knowledge-base, then you don’t want this. If your links depend on any kind of app-specific or proprietary formats, they will all eventually break. I can see some uses for linking in Drafts, and might give it a spin, but there is a problem there for long-term information upkeep. I’ve tried various ways of combining these things into one, but have increasingly seen the value in stratifying different kinds of knowledge storage. I currently use Drafts for pervasive capture, and as a “operational memory” area, while using The Archive for longer-term, static, conceptual knowledge.
If you’re not aware of it, you should check out The Archive, and the community forums they have there.
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Thanks for bringing this up! I use something similar to the Zettelkasten method described in How to Take Smart Notes.
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