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Linkist is meant to assist you in developing your own "Zettelkasten".
A Zettelkasten (German for "note box") is a method for organizing your written notes in a way that maximizes your creativity and productivity.
To read more about this method start with this introduction or buy How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens for the complete method.
Linkist automatically generates permanent, unique-looking identifiers which allow you link ideas freely, and follow those links later.
You will see many arguments amongst Zettelkasten users about the correct link content and format. That's because they cannot decide whether a link should be descriptive, permanent, date-inclusive, topical, ...
Linkist sidesteps this debate by going back very closely to Niklas Luhmann's original system as documented in Sönke Ahrens book. Each of Luhmann's thousands of notes had a permanent identifier like 21/3d7a7 which is used only for finding and referencing other notes. Linkist link IDs serve the same function.
By using the very common Markdown link format [description](link) we can give a link whatever descriptive name we like, without breaking it. Links can appear or be moved anywhere in a workspace, and remain useful. It's the best of all worlds.
Why VS Code?
- It runs well on all desktop platforms.
- It is easily customized and extended.
- It's reasonably fast and responsive.
- It's easy to learn and use.
- It's well supported by Microsoft and an active community.
Why not Atom?
Early versions of this plugin were written for Atom, but VS Code is the future for desktop-based electron editors.
Why Markdown?
- Plain text files are readable on every computing platform and will continue to be readable for many lifetimes.
- Markdown format is easy to read and write.
- You can use
pandocor other tools easily convert to other formats if you like. - Command line tools can be used to search and manipulate content