ConnectedText on wine / mac and zettelkasten programs

Posted by nathanb
Jun 25, 2018 at 07:30 PM

>Ultimately, though, I found plaintext to be the easiest
>way to maintain a digital zettelkasten across Windows, Mac, and iOS,
>especially now that ConnectedText seems to no longer be under active
>development.
>

This is a question we all struggle with. I keep asking myself what ‘easiest’ means in this context. Does it literally mean the minimum time it takes to manage your info (overhead)? I’m leaning towards using the best software available until it’s no longer viable, then doing a ‘hard migration’ when you need to switch platforms. Which could very well mean copying every single item individually and re-coding the links and metadata. I figure if the difference between the ‘best fit’ software and plain text is a 20% gain in productivity/usefulness then that’s worth several days of hard migration every couple years. I also justify more CRIMPing by telling myself that ‘hard migration’ is basically a huge review of all your stuff which has a large theoretical value.

If I were to go to a plain text system, I’d take a hard look at tagspaces. Their front-end to a plain text note collection has intrigued me for a while.