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Kartik Agaram
02/11/2022, 7:59 AMMore adventures in sandboxing[1][2]
I've been working on a Zettelkasten app: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2022-02-10 (video; 4 minutes)
One interesting insight here was that putting raw file operations directly in
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Konrad Hinsen
02/13/2022, 9:47 AMThat's an interesting demo application in that it is (1) well suited to text mode and (2) a nice use case for situated / personalizable software.
As an implementation of Zettelkasten, however, it looks rather weird. The idea of the "box of index cards" is precisely not to impose any hierarchy on the notes. Instead, you have references to the cards' unique IDs (which are the titles in some implementations). A basic operation which needs good UI support is thus to look up a card while you are working on another one, for inserting a link.
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Kartik Agaram
02/13/2022, 2:36 PMThanks! Yeah I haven't demoed that yet. As a teaser notice the little stripes of color above the menu at the bottom of the screen.
It seems to me that the way you name IDs in Z is intended precisely to impose hierarchy. Zettel 1a1 is 'under' 1a in a way that is hard to undo after the fact. All you can do is insert more links in between, or let this side atrophy and copy the cards to 1b to try again.
Cross-links are expensive in space, and you can't live with them alone.
I'd love to be corrected on this score. I'm not actually a Z practitioner, and here I'm deliberately trying to build something for others rather than myself. I'm also curious if you consider Workflowy, Roam et al. reasonable implementations of Z, because to me they've always seemed internally consistent, but something different, more wiki-like.
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Konrad Hinsen
02/14/2022, 9:46 AMThere are many digital interpretations of the original Zettelkasten idea, so it's hard to pin down exactly what is an essential aspect of it. With index cards, the ID had to be structured to make finding the card as easy as possible. Any digital pointer does better than that. Which is why many digital versions (e.g. Roam, Org-Roam, TiddlyWiki, ...) just use the title as the ID. Hierarchies can then be achieved via transclusion, or lists-of-links, etc. But in my understanding of Zettelkasten, hierarchies are optional and certainly not a central feature of the method.