telekasten.nvim VS zk

"renerocksai/telekasten.nvim" - note saving

Are you a Neovim user? If so, I'd recomend Telekasten.nvim (https://github.com/renerocksai/telekasten.nvim). It's an amazing experience writing your zettles

Are you familiar with the idea of Zettelkasten method? It's an old idea about how to accomplish what you're talking about, but there's a ton of software out there meant to facilitate it. The wikipedia article is worth a glance, and there are various articles about software implementations. A lot of people mention Obsidian in connection with it. I use a Neovim extension for it, telekasten.nvim because I generally live in Neovim, but there are bunch of other options.

- it interacts with calendar, so you can have chronological scratch notes, and well organised final notes https://github.com/renerocksai/telekasten.nvim

For Notetaking, I use Vimwiki. However there are other out there like obsidian.nvim, telekasten.nvim, neorg, nvim-orgmode, mind.nvim. I wanted something that felt universal, (like supported anywhere) so I moved to basically to markdown based system, since it's supported by github, gitlab, obsidian gui app, etc. I even use it on mobile, there is an obsidian android app.

Currently there are three choices that looks promising to me: neorg (might be too complicated for me), zk.nvim, and telekasten.nvim. What is your experience if you use one of these plugins for note-taking? How well can they address the problems listed above?

I am using a note taking plugin called Telekasten and my current theme, Nightfox, does not seem to support the custom file type. The result of this is that whenever I open a file that has the telekasten the colour of the file is completely uniform.

Plug for telekasten.nvim, I've bounced between a bunch of different note/journal/zettlekasten software solutions, but this one is just so simple and stays out of my way. A bonus is that it supports the same format (links, tags, etc) as obsidian, so I can switch between the two as needed.

https://github.com/renerocksai/telekasten.nvim is an excellent plugin for integrating markdown zettelkasten into neovim. The vimtex plugin is great for better neovim latex support.

I use org-mode with the journal plugin, but I'm soon going to switch to zk[0]. My technique is called interstitional journaling[1], and I just keep track of my location (I travel a lot) and the date, which gets generated by org. You can set up an interstitional journal in anything though, Logseq[2] supports it out of the box.

[0] (https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk)

Personally, I'm using zk for now. What's nice about is that it aims to be a common-denominator between all the popular zettelkasten markdown formats out there. So the notes you write with it will be forward-compatible with many other note-taking apps like Obsidian.

If you want to go full terminal workspace - you could use Zk (https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk) + editor of your choice. It is just markdown under the hood, but it comes with quite a few good features that majority of the tools have now (tags, backlinks, front matter, templates, etc). I wrote a post about my setup literally yesterday (it was a bit more editor oriented though) https://www.reddit.com/r/HelixEditor/comments/144x6r3/escape_hatch_xd/

I selected Helix as it is phenomenally fast, I love out of the box feature set, key bindings are intuitive and it looks sick :) To manage my notes I found ZK - very cool CLI with extensibility in mind.

I use https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk

For now, with a couple aliases wrapping nb as I try it out. I'm also planning to give https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk a shot, it looks to be almost exactly what I'm looking for an offers a vim plugin to boot.

mds is grepping notes' names and items' names (links and code snippets). and also moving forward/backward along the graph. I used to use https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk, it was messing me up, giving too much info, each line of every file.

Big fan of zk and zk-nvim. The biggest drawback was that link insertion depended on cmp, but now there's work to add linking as a direct LSP command. I've been using that since it's been merged in, and it makes creating and linking notes on the fly a breeze!