"South Lake" from the maker of Journler (alpha) (Mac only)

Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 7, 2016 at 08:30 PM

faustisch wrote:
>I currently do it via categories like this: I write my note and add the
>citation in plain text in american format like one would in a journal
>article. So I would write some text and then go (Luhmann 1997: 33). Then
>I add the citation as a category [[$CATEGORY: Luhmann 1997]] and store
>the formatted full reference in it, This then also contains links to all
>the individual notes from the same text. I then make that Category a
>subcategory of [[$CATEGORY: Bibliography]] which gives me access to all
>text I have notes on in alphabetical order.
> >Is there a better way to do this? I have only used the basic features of
>CT so far.

That sounds like a reasonable system. What do you do though if you have multiple quotations from the same publication? Do you keep adding them to the same category page? I could see that becoming an issue, if there are too many quotes per publication.

I don’t add text to category topics as I prefer to have a clear distinction between topics (containers of text) and categories (I have some Python scripts that are based around that distinction).

As for my system, I’ve converted to the Luhmannite Zettelkasten principle of one bite-sized note per idea or quote. I don’t use CT for actual writing (it’s a notes database and a project manager for me), so I don’t have a need to use it as a cite-as-you-write reference manager.

Perhaps let’s continue the discussion on the CT forum, once you get approved, as all this is getting a bit too technical and OT here.