# Laurence, Space & Society in Roman Pompeii Title: Space Syntax in Pompeii - shortcomings I make sure to have a ‘data block’ for each note, which is ] again, above and below the metadata, with the body of the card below – at a minimum, it looks like this: [[ I do my readings, I make my notes, I generate my web of notecards. I designate Pykwiki’s ‘source’ folder as my Zettlekasten folder for Sublime text. Pykwiki *also* understands those ] as internal links! (caveat: don’t have any spaces in file names). ![]() But the files would lose that network of connections – remember, Sublime is interpreting my ] as an internal link. Now, I could just put my Zettlekasten in a github repo in the first place, and then push them online. md files and generate a site from them, which you can then put on your own server space (see a list of features here). Pykwiki is a static site generator, run from the command line, that will take a folder of. This is where Pykwiki comes into the picture. What is even better is being able to keep this structure, searchable, online in a way that could be forked. Dan also has a script for exporting annotations made on pdfs from Skim as markdown files ( my post on this), and the resulting md file can be chopped up quickly or integrated into the existing network of cards). So, with a bit of forethought and sensible naming conventions, I can quickly build up quite a network of cards. You can also crosslink as described above in nvAlt using the [[ and typing the first letters of the card you wish to crosslink to). Folks just getting started – start with nvAlt. Then, highlight the other options and hit the – button. Hit the + button under each one in turn, adding ‘md’. In ‘preferences, notes, storage’ there are two lists of file types. It’s a bit like Notational Velocity in that regard (and of course, you could use Notational Velocity if you wanted, though – I’d have to check – I don’t think you can save your notes as separate. If there is no file when I hit ] as the file name. When I type ] and I can ctrl click on that link to jump to the other file. In essence, Dan’s system is just a simple plugin for Sublime Text that designates a particular folder a ‘wiki’. In an earlier post I got the one-card-per-note ‘zettlekasten’ system that Dan Sheffler uses working on my machine (by the way, you will learn a *lot* if you spend some time reading Dan’s thoughts on the art of note taking). So what is this solution? Zettlekasten + Pykwiki. ![]() ![]() Mark Madsen’s explanation of how his open notebook works – and the logic he organizes it by – is similarly an inspiration: Īnd Ben Marwick’s work is pathbreaking (especially within archaeology): But first:Ĭaleb McDaniel’s eloquent argument for why one would want to do it is here: Tonight, I think I’ve hit a combination of tools that are sufficiently powerful and straightforward enough that I can integrate them into my undergraduate teaching. I’ve been looking for an open notebook solution for some time.
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