ConnectedText on wine / mac and zettelkasten programs

Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 25, 2018 at 10:44 PM

Jon Polish wrote:
Dr. Andus is the expert on CT and could probably assist with your
>problem and advice on application for your purpose.

Sorry, I’m more of a fanboi than an expert, especially when it comes to this sort of technical problem.

@Browza

Perhaps someone on the CT forum might be able to help you, there are a couple of Mac users there. I have only tried CT in (Android) CrossOver on a Chromebook, and it basically didn’t work.

>Also, a bit more generally: what are your thoughts on using digital
>zettelkästen? For one, it is not entirely clear to me whether
>ConnectedText will be developed in the next few years. But equally, I
>feel like I should be cautious about all programs when we are talking
>about a timespan of 20-30 years.

Once in a while I try to free myself from CT and Windows (most recently have been considering Dokuwiki), but every time I end up sticking with it, as nothing comes close to it.

The lock-in problem is not that bad in CT if you enable its automatic backups, which outputs human readable text files (with the *.cbk extension) to a folder of your choice. So even if CT failed one day to open for whatever reason, the content is safe.

My current Zettelkasten strategy is to stick with a Windows 7 laptop just so I can run CT on it with all the other supporting software (mainly Python 2.7 and Autohotkey) as far into the future as possible.

It would be great if one day I could run CT on a server somehow, so I could access it via a web interface, using a Chromebook.