| For VSC there is also Dendron [1], which I found nicer than Foam. After lots of trial/error and at the end of the rabbit hole I found Emacs with org-roam [2]. It has a steep learning-curve and often seems outdated, but it is also very powerful, has VIM hotkeys, and allows me to create the academic workflow I want - so far I can automatically create a note from my Zotero .bib library, fill it based on a template and the insert all my annotations from the associated PDF. Afterwards I also semi-automatically extract the references from that PDF, insert them into the annotations and then start to link everything into my Zettelkasten system. Sometimes I wish I just stayed with VSCode/Markdown, but then I remember that I can now put "elisp" on my resumee :) Overall I think that the "new" note-taking/Zettelkasten-systems is very cool and useful, but I wish someone would come along and create "the next big thing" which in my opinion is multi-dimensional notes. Tiddlywiki/Tiddlyroam [4,5], TheBrain[6] and even Scrivener [7] seem like a step in the right direction, but they also make some other things overly complicated (convoluted UI, no plug/play export, bad editors, ...). I want to be able to freely take notes on my computer the same way I can do on paper, and then be able to "super-charge" them by linking, aggregating, searching them. At the moment notes are "one-dimensional", i.e. I can only write from top to bottom. Compare it to paper where I can freely change my style of writing, add drawing, annotations, change directions, ... Writing on the computer just feels very restricting. 1: https://dendron.so/
2: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam
3: https://github.com/inukshuk/anystyle
4: https://tiddlywiki.com/
5: https://tiddlyroam.org/
6: https://www.thebrain.com/
7: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview |
If it works the same way then is it a case of installing the extension with little config after that?
I'm not opposed to switching again