Incorrect, unless something has changed the past year, obsidian is not open source and, in fact, very much against it.
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/11
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/39
If you care about this, as I do, then a better alternative is Zettlr.
Man muss nicht auf TeX zurückgreifen, es gibt wundervolle Markdown-Alternativen, womit man wirklich schnell und einfach Texte und Bilder setzen kann. Mein Editor der Wahl für nahezu alles ist Zettlr, dort kann ich sogar nach Latex/PDF oder Word exportieren. Ich habe die einfache Markdown-Syntax und zusätzlich aber so Gimmicks wie Bilder per Copy&Paste einfügen, WYSIWYG-Tabellen usw. Hat bei mir Latex komplett verdrängt, weil ich so wirklich Zeit auf das Schreiben verwende, statt mich durch das Latex-Chaos zu wühlen. Und durch die Export-Funktion erhalte ich einwandfreien und schönen Blocksatz.
Lots of great options already mentioned by others. I'll add one more: Zettlr.
It's a markdown editor oriented towards writing and note-taking, it supports linking between notes and has good integration with mermaid.js for diagrams, bibtex for citations. All notes are just local markdown files so it can easily be synced to cloud storage via GDrive, Dropbox, etc. or version controlled using git.
Honestly, I think people overthink tooling for Zettelkasten.
Just think about this... Luhmann used pen and paper. :) If I could / would have the space to have an actual slip-box, by all the Gods, I would use it. Why? Because walking to it, taking out the notes and such, gives it extra strength in your memory. You are using more senses to access knowledge. Not to mention the fact that spatial knowledge, the fact WHERE the zettel is, gives it even more power. ( as demonstrated by the power of method of loci knowledge tied to spatial awareness is always better and more powerful than plain remembering. ).
Furthermore, the more complex the tooling is, the more you have to keep in mind. As opposed to something like, flat files with links and numbers, or even Zettlr if you want SOME extra features.
Also, as said many times here, don't vendor lock yourself. Just use text. :)
That's my 2 cents anyways.
Hi, u/JoseV12!
First of all, sorry that I can't help you with the Zettelkasen3 app. However, I'm reading the same book you mention and if I may I can give you a suggestion. If you haven't tried it, I recommend you give Zettlr a try.
That app is awesome for a Zettelkasten and the documentation explains very clearly (<em>Citing with Zettlr</em>) how you can use Zotero with it, maybe not exactly seamlessly but close: by exporting your Zotero library.
I've found Zettlr very easy to use and well designed. Maybe you'll think the same.
Anyway, I'm sorry that I didn't respond exactly to what you were asking, but I hope this is of some use to you.
Thanks for your well wishes about the continued pursuit of knowledge. I hope you're having a great day.
Its https://www.zettlr.com/ i had written wrong. Its free open source and the developer will listen your requests. If it dosent fit you try some Roam like programs, some developers are building something similar, just search on github or google
I use Zettlr. I used Typora until version 0.9 something but found that Zettlr offered more features that I enjoyed(better folder organization, supports linking between documents with a few clicks, better table editor, better theming, more configurable spellchecker, highly configurable character replacement), plus Typora is closed source + paid, while Zettlr is FOSS.
Before you ask, Zettlr does support bookmarks, sections, navigation and all that. It also supports exports to all conventional text formats (it's .md or just plaintext with formatting symbols by default).
I sync between my devices using Syncthing.
I’ve been doing some search about this recently as I try to stick to an app for personal knowledge management.
I happen to enjoy VS Code a lot and there’s a very nice extension called dendron. I think it combines the best features of most PKM softwares (hierarchy, graph view, Journaling, calendar view, support for mermaid diagrams, local first, etc). I went through the tutorial and loved it and I can see myself using it along Zettlr for academic writing.
While searching about these programs I came across quite frequently with Notion workflows, so I guess it is quite popular.
Since you mention you‘re in the humanities, I would recommend you choose a setup with Markdown (plenty of programs to choose from) and export to Word using Pandoc as soon as you need to send something out. Saves you a lot of hassle, is very easy to learn and in my opinion the superior solution. LaTeX (and thus Overleaf, since it also uses LaTeX) is way too complicated for just writing text.
I recommend especially Zettlr since it attempts to make all of that very painless, but disclaimer: I am its developer. Good alternatives are Obsidian and logseq, some use Scrivener (however that is also closed source and comes with a pricetag).
Download the AppImage version from https://www.zettlr.com/download
right-click the downloaded AppImage file -> Permissions -> Allow Executing as Program
Double-click the file or right-click -> Run
After months of hard work, Zettlr 2.0 just became a reality! Feel free to download it and have a look.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions, or just wanna discuss this release, feel free to comment here!
You can download Zettlr 2.0 at https://www.zettlr.com/download
Two options here:
First, you can select text that contains a #, ##, or ### and replace it with Heading1, Heading2, and Heading3 via the Find and Replace menu. It's one way to at least handle the headings, which is the most important part for me.
Second, the open notetaking program "Zettlr" https://www.zettlr.com/ has an excellent markdown reader that exports beautifully. Literally just select the text you want to move into LibreOffice and then right click and choose "Copy as HTML" It's a little bulky for a text editor, but the Markdown features are very nice.
Zettlr also works in reverse, meaning if you paste your LibreOffice document into the program, it will maintain all links, italics, headings, etc. but in Markdown format.
Hope that helps.
Zettler is a free app to handle Markdown, I’m not sure how it compares to Ulysses, but it seemed really cool when I looked at it. Works on Mac and Windows (and Linux). It doesn’t have mobile apps, though.
>I wish there was a WYSIWYG editor for Markdown that was as popular as LibreOffice, so I could drop images and video in.
Zettlr and Abricotine are the best I have found, though still not perfect.
You should try zettlr https://www.zettlr.com/. It even has zotero support. Plus its open source, and seems committed to that.
For me, it was the citations and the ability to create inline h2 timestamps with a single command. With their workflow tab (in settings), this was also possible.
You can also interact with registered tags (which are somewhat proprietary).
Besides reading Stoic texts...
I also journal, do the cold shower thing, decorate my office with a classy skull here and Greek statue there to as reminders to pursue wisdom, etc. When I visit the spa, I like to recite Enchiridion 1 while trying to bear extreme temperatures in the cold/hot pools. But, to be honest, I'm not convinced any of these things generalize to noticeable character change.
Overall, just being organized and systematic is a big part of my Stoic practice. I'm a disorganized person by nature, prone to procrastination. Using an effective to-do-list system (in the spirit of Getting Things Done) is the foundation of my ability to be effective in developing myself and benefiting others. It allows me to decide what to do, and then actually do it.
I like to think that this is why organization and orderliness appear in ancient lists of Stoic sub-virtues.
I've been using Typora for a long time. The only problem with it is that it's not free software nor open source. The alternative I'm using now is https://www.zettlr.com/ which is an open sourced and very powerful editor. With a lot of built-in functionality to help produce notes/documentation/research papers and articles among other things
Oh, I just started doing Zettelkasten myself (or at least some loose variant of it)! It's a wonderful complement to Anki, and has done wonders for helping my organize my projects and dissertation work.
I've been using Zettlr for the notes (it's open source and Markdown-based), and I the way I'm using it is inspired by Andy Mutuschak's concept of Evergreen Notes, which (as you say) uses principles a lot like Anki. I tell people it's basically about creating a personal Wiki.
I'm just two or three weeks in, but I'm finding it's intuitively obvious to me what kinds of information should go in Anki and what should go in Zettlr.
Zettlr: https://www.zettlr.com/ Win/Mac/Linux
Markdown Editor with built-in Zettelkasten system (search by tags, link notes by ID)
Marktext and Typora are also good standalone Markdown-Editors: good for people wanting to work with single files, more features than .txt and not as advanced as word processors
If you want a tool with focus on data security that runs offline, but also has some roam features such as wiki links while maintaining a very traditional GUI, feel free to check out Zettlr (FOSS)
Check out this app, designed for academic writers. It's a beautiful, lean Scrivener alternative. I set it up on elementary easily. While it doesn't really share the elementary aesthetic, it's beautiful and powerful and elegant in it's own right. https://www.zettlr.com/
I'm using the markdown editor zettlr because it doesn't do the split window thing (which I don't like), rather it does something halfway between fully rendering and syntax highlighting. It's not wysiwyg but it does show things like images and rendered latex equations, but without the wastefulness of an entire split panel.