What is Reddit's opinion of The Archive?

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I've been using The Archive for the last 6 weeks or so and I've written more in these 6 weeks than I have in the last year.

It's based around the idea of a Zettelkasten, which is getting quite a bit of attention recently.

As far as file structure goes, I just have ~/notes which is filled with markdown files.

I was searching for the same thing when I found (it's in English btw):
https://zettelkasten.de

It's an absolute wealth of information, the blog articles and the forums are amazing. The people of zettelkasten.de have made their own program to implement the technique they use but seem to still encourage other new programs as well. Their's a wide range of solutions available for this problem.

Some of the best things i've found: https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/226/renes-sublimeless-zettelkasten

https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/

One note and ever note are an absolute fucking nightmare for your privacy btw.

I'm partial to The Archive. It's a Mac native program built specifically with ZK in mind. Everything is stored in plaintext/markdown in a folder on your computer. I've tried Obsidian, Roam, Zettlr... probably a few others that I'm not remembering off the top of my head. I always end up back with The Archive.

I use The Archive and try to follow the Zettelkasten principle. New notes get an ID (for example 20210815202656).

When I feel that the note doesn't fit into Things, I just write a very short description in the Things task or project and reference my note ID in Things.

This setup is not for everyone, though. Taking notes on mobile is a bit of a pain (I use iA Writer to create/update notes; not perfect, as it doesn't generate my IDs), but as I work on desktop 95% of the time, this wasn't a big issue for me so far.

Why I didn't use Apple Notes/Bear?

• My notes are now stored in plain text and I'm in full control on where they are stored
• I can use any editor I want to read, write or update my notes
• Sharing notes is easy. I can just share the file with someone

I just dipped my toes in the Roam waters, but I'm going to stick with Notion. I'm starting a new graduate program this Fall and wanted to build a zettlekasten within Roam, but I think I will use the standalone Mac app The Archive for my zettelkasten needs and keep everything else in Notion. It kind of sucks, because I was hoping to go iPad-centric, so I may just stick with Roam for this with the .edu discount, but I agree with the OP's assessment.

You might want to give this blog post a read. It potentially explains why so few people here still use Zkn3 (which I think has been discontinued...? Could be wrong about that).

For longevity, creating your zettelkasten using plain text or markdown is often recommended. I'm using Zettlr but there are many alternatives like The Archive or even SublimeText with some mods. This means that even if software you're using becomes broken or depreciated, you don't lose all your heard work building a zettelkasten!

If you're on macOS: nvUltra (when it eventually comes out), will support multiple folders https://brettterpstra.com/2019/08/07/your-august-nvultra-update/

At the moment I use The Archive https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/

u/MaskOfTheSun I vote for this too!

And what about implementing it as a link that would be actually a clickable search entry. In editor, it would appear as link; clicking it would insert its content into search bar. I'd appreciate this feature extremely. This is not new idea; The Archive uses this approach. It's would be a flexible way to interlink notes.

One way or another, iA Writer definitely needs a more ways of note interlinking. As far as I know, there is currently no way to point from one note to another. Internal links, ie. links to another files in library don't work (tried to use [link](./note.md)). Tags can be thought as sort of linking mechanism, but it would be cool if they were clickable (as in Bear). I plan to make a dedicated thread for this topic, because I believe it deserves a more discussion.

To the standard-ness of markdown: the special markup could be simply ignored, that is, either appear in preview unformatted, or ommited entirely. Anyway, iA Writer already uses non-standard markup for "content blocks", which I consider quite weird, because the leading slash in the file path looks like it's an absolute path.

I use a program called Sublimeless ZK to access an archive of plaintext files (either .md or .txt) located in a single folder. The program reads/interprets markdown syntax, allowing hyperlink functionality between notes.

Several other programs work the same way, like NValt or The Archive.