My Zettelkasten Scheme

May 27th, 2026 – 8:35 PM

This page contains details on the numbering conventions for my zettelkasten. For purposes of organization, these are case insensitive. Sometimes I write them in all capitals and sometimes in lower case. All notes identifiers start with the letter z. That is because Joplin requires a character rather than a number in order to search. Then [...]

QOwnNotes and Zettelkästen

December 17th, 2025 – 9:07 PM
Tagged as: Computing Notes

I love Joplin, but Joplin seems more like an incredible file cabinet and set of bookshelves. It is possible to link from one note to another, but a Joplin icon appears by that link in the text. It can also be cumbersome to navigate between multiple documents while working on one. Joplin recently added the [...]

Picking a tool for zettelkasten

December 15th, 2025 – 8:11 PM
Tagged as: Computing Notes

It is a very challenging thing to pick a tool to invest time into building a personal knowledgebase. I have used numerous tools over the years and collected a huge number of documents and notes. Logseq integrates with Zotero which might prove useful due the gigabytes of material that I have stored there. My plan [...]

Discovering Zettelkästen

December 14th, 2025 – 9:14 PM
Tagged as: Computing Notes

I discovered Trilium.  The license is great.  The software is mind-blowing.   I found it as part of my desire to migrate away from Obsidian. They have a repository at https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium. Via an advertisement there, I discovered https://www.warp.dev/code which looks like an most incredible resource.   That may be how applications like Trillium have such incredible documentation and [...]