Luedecke's Zettlekaten

Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 15, 2014 at 01:38 PM

Christian Tietze wrote:
I know ConnectedText only because MK at
>http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com blogs about it a lot. Its means to
>connect notes seem more “rich” than what regular Wiki-style links do.
>Anyway, I think it’s an interesting application. Since I have no Windows
>computer availible, I can’t review this application myself, sadly.

I think he uses it on a Mac with Parallels, I believe, and someone on his blog also suggested Wine:
http://takingnotenow.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/connectetext-on-ipod.html

As for the linking possibilities in CT, there are a few. If you use date topics, then firstly there is a chronological order, and the topics are linked automatically to and through a calendar (e.g. clicking on a day brings up the notes taken that day, ordered by time). Then you can of course link notes directly using the double brackets.

Then you can use so-called attributes for example to link notes according to some key characteristics (e.g. the elements of the bibliographic reference, such as authors’ names, publication date, title, publisher, publication type etc.). And then there are the categories (labels), which you can use to classify the note content according to the main themes (qualitative coding, in a sense).

An additional layer of classification can be done by the “named blocks” feature (which is more like a QDA coding feature), but it’s quite complicated to use and i think it’s not fully mature yet as a feature.

Finally, it’s also possible to link to external files, including to specific pages in a PDF (though it’s a manual process using markup, so it’s more fiddly than some other dedicated referencing software—but this is where templates come in).

Here is what my reading note template looks like for my Zettelkasten in CT (not sure if the forum software will display it all, let’s see):

[[$NOTOC:]]

=Quote=

=Comment=

=Reference=

[[Author:=Smith, K.]] ([[Year:=2003]]). [[Title:=The Best Book in the World]]. Cambridge, MA: [[Publisher:=Harvard University Press]].

=PDF=

[[$APP: “C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\PDF Viewer\PDFXCview.exe” /a “page=68” “C:\Users\Dr Andus\Documents\PhD\Literature\Smith_2003.pdf” | Page 68]]

[[$CATEGORY:Smith, K.|best books]]