Multiple machines, multiple OSs, narrowing apps?

Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 29, 2019 at 02:43 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
Dr Andus, if you get a chance, and perhaps in a new thread, I would be
>quite interested in how you use Dynalist for research as a Zettelkasten.
>Now that I am primarily using a Chromebook, and loving it, I have
>wondered about using Dynalist more intentionally for notes and bibdata.
>I would use date and time as a unique identifier - 2019 06 23 2045h,
>and appropriate tags.

My system is quite simple. I have a separate file for Zettelkasten, which only holds my reading notes.

Each entry’s title starts with a date identifier: 2019-06-29 15:25 Author (pub. year) descriptive title of entry

Then in the note section of the entry there is either a quote or my summary of the point.

I may have an additional “NOTE” section for some meta observation.

Then comes a “See also” section where I add the links to other already existing Zettels in the system.

Then comes the bibliographic info, and URL link to the source, if a web source. Plus “Date accessed:”

And at the bottom I list all the categories in a single row: @Einstein if it relates to a human, and #topic for all other categories.

I also use a few CSS style sheets with the Stylus extension in Chrome, to enhance the visual presentation. Row separator creates the “Zettel” (or card) effect, and the Darknest Hour colours in URLs and tags, so they can be more easily spotted. Coloured Pills is for marking out Zettels for further attention.

Darknest Hour v.1.2
https://userstyles.org/styles/141020/darknest-hour-v-1-2

Dynalist Row Separator
https://userstyles.org/styles/134412/dynalist-row-separator

Dynalist coloured pills
https://userstyles.org/styles/161369/dynalist-coloured-pills

The Create Link Chrome extension is also helpful for pasting in Markdown-formatted links of web sources.