zk VS org-roam-bibtex

Hey there, here's some packages that might help you: - Org Roam - Denote - Zk

The citar package, which I created, has note integration packages available for both org-roam and denote (along with zk).

You could try denote as some others suggest. I found this, which takes inspiration from zettelkasten like roam but uses plain text and no database, https://github.com/localauthor/zk

You might try zk. I think it checks most of those boxes. https://github.com/localauthor/zk

Thanks for the links. A lot of ideas are very relatable and I agree, that the Zettelkasten might not fit the general note taking needs. As I pointed out, I am specifically interested in utilizing the zettelkasten-method in a research-workflow aiming to assist (and track) a structured cognition process. However, tools like org-roam and delve (which I recently checked out) introduce a certain degree of complexity to the system -- especially if you want to understand the technicalities of the utilized solution. Therefore, I'm very much intrigued by zk, developed by /u/oldjawbone recently. Asking you as the die hard PIM-enthusiast who you certainly are: What is your opinion on zk's general design decisions? Do you think it is reasonably future-proof,/u/publicvoit?

Located here: https://github.com/localauthor/zk

In addition to org-roam, I would recommend checking out https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-bibtex for attaching notes to specific papers that are indexed by an application like Zotero. Some good tutorials for it are here: https://rgoswami.me/posts/org-note-workflow/ and https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/how_to_take_smart_notes_org/ and https://emacsconf.org/2020/talks/17/ . Since current org-roam (post-v2) uses the normal org-mode "id" form, you can make any "headline" into an roam-registered node. You could then split your long derivations into different headlines, where the body of the headline or descriptive text could refer to prior nodes, but any latex is inserted using org latex blocks https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-LaTeX.html . You've maybe already considered this (and I wouldn't be surprised if local references were easier to do in straight latex), but org-roam-bibtex is really nice for interfacing with your citation system for other papers.

I think you should also look org-roam and org-roam-bibtex (I can't configure org-roam-bibtex properly because I'm on Windows).

Taking this one step further, if you use the excellent org-roam package (which if you don't you should definitely check it out, its great for note-taking), there is a package called org-roam-bibtex which communicates very well with the aforementioned packages. With it, you can create bibliographic notes as part of your org-roam repository from their bibtex entry and initialize the file to also include a link to the pdf from org-noter. Once you learn it, its a very powerful and streamlined workflow for working with articles which makes your life very easy. Its quite a bit of reading to do on your end on how to make all these work together, but trust me its worth it.

Have you followed the discussion here: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-bibtex/issues/159

If you want to use it primarily for literature notes, maybe you should have a look at the current state of https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-bibtex/tree/org-roam-v2 before deciding.