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Social recommendations and mentions

• NvAlt: MultiMarkdown Notational Velocity fork with Markdown editing and preview

  I used to _love_ this program. Alas, it is very out-of-date. The best alternative I've yet found is [The Archive](https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/). Why is this trending now? - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Joplin is an open source note-taking app

  I currently use The Archive app (Zettelkasten style) : https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Struggling to fully understand and get started

  You're worrying too much about this. First, you're confusing a Zettelkasten (ZK) with a PKM. You don't need a PKM to have a ZK. And, yes, there are examples of text based ZKs. Agreed with u/FastSascha - the Archive is probably the best example: Https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/. Source: 10 months ago

• nvALT 2

  I used to use nvALT quite a bit. These days I use The Archive[1] instead. [1]: https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Feature request: option to name new notes with date stamp

  But relatedly, I would kill to have tabular numerals in the sidebar, so files beginning with date stamps or any numbers line up. See The Archive sidebar for reference. Source: over 1 year ago

• Need loads of suggestions because I think I'm lost?!

  If you're on Mac, you might check out The Archive. It is based on the Zettelkasten concept, so it attempts to be card-based. Source: about 2 years ago

• A good file-based app for the Mac?

  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. Source: over 2 years ago

• What note taking app do you use with Things 3?

  I use The Archive and try to follow the Zettelkasten principle. New notes get an ID (for example 20210815202656). Source: over 2 years ago

• Note Taking in 2021

  Best note taking I’ve done is just rubber-ducking to myself in a (public) slack channel solely for that purpose. Never worry about hierarchies, and easily link back to past messages. For a dedicated app and methodology, I find https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/ mimics that style. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Paper Notes

  Best luck I've ever had "taking notes" was borrowing an idea from a former co-worker. He just rubber ducked everything in a personal Slack channel. You get time-centric notes, with the ability to link backwards to former threads of thought. I wanted to build a note app around this idea, but the article links to The Archive https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/ which is essentially that idea. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• [21/100] Note on note taking 3: notes and todos

  For me a combination of the archive for notes and taskpaper for todo lists works nicely. Hotkeys and automatization for the win! - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago