I was wondering what you think to be the best practice regarding index cards? I suppose all of the links in the index card would be with the double-brackets, following the logic as I understand it. And good that you mentioned “See Also”, as it wasn’t in the picture above it didn’t come to mind, but I would have been curious to know how you treat them. Thanks again Kourosh! Helpful to hear that you don’t think doubling up very necessary, reserving item links only for special cases. That way the note plays well with Obsidian and we keep the sequential-series links locked down with item links too…? Reply I.e., to use double bracket wikilinks in the text of the note and to place the x-devonthink-item://… urls in the slots for next/previous note created in the custom meta-data. Is that just the case of this note, or are you following this as a general rule? Perhaps a way not to entirely abandon the security of item links is doubling up the links for the sequential-series notes. The others are just names and alias wikilinks (besides the TOC links). Now that there is no longer any way to search specifically for incoming item links in DTP (the script from you book is no longer valid) and double bracketed wikilinks become more universal, perhaps item links are less relevant now? In the example note here, you reserve greater meaningfulness to series-sequence links (the ones up top in the double-brackets). The Obsidian graph shows exclusively what are double-bracket links. Is that so? Experimenting on my own I notice that although item links are preserved as live links in Obsidian, they are not rendered as connections in the graph. Here you seem to be replacing this role of item links with the double bracketed wikilinks (those compatible with Obsidian). There you seem to indicate item links (x-devonthink-item://… urls) as the means of preserving more meaningful (important) links. There you seem yet to have seen any place for the square bracket wikilinks. In your book you mention your preference for names and aliases. Being new to this world of note taking and these apps, I bought your book and have been learning the ropes, piggy backing your system. I want to thank you Kourosh for blazing the trail. Specifically, DEVONthink now allows for choosing both “Square Brackets” and “Names and Aliases” as WikiLink options, instead of only one or the other: For example, while you can create texts or edit PDFs in DEVONthink, you can also launch your favorite editors to work on them outside the application, while still keeping the advantages of them being within DEVONthink’s database.ĭEVONthink has recently had a small but quite significant change in its WikiLinks preferences that accommodates this rather well for note-linking apps. It integrates a whole host of functions and then lets you use most any other app alongside it.

Fortunately, you can use both.ĭEVONthink is the sort of app that plays well with others. Especially if you’ve invested considerable time into one program or the other. Now, you may be worried, as is often the case in the world of productivity, about choosing what to use.

It provides a solid linking and back-linking system, and has quite a snazzy graphing mechanism, to boot. I’ve been kicking its tires quite a bit, and it’s really quite neat. It’s been called a SlipBox, Notebox, and Zettelkasten, likely among other monikers.Ĭertainly I’ve been quite keen on DEVONthink, as my recently released Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink can attest.īut another one that is certainly worth exploring is Obsidian. These are notes that are tiny in nature but, when linked together, they become a powerful database with which to explore thought and build ideas. They’ve grown to be useful for developing what are increasingly being called atomic notes.

But not just for taking notes in the conventional sense. Note taking apps seem to be growing in popularity as of late.

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