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Zettlr —— 面向个人知识管理与出版的开源 Markdown 写作工具
Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
导读
这是 Hacker News 上关于开源 Markdown 笔记工具 Zettlr 的讨论帖：它主打 Zettelkasten（卡片盒笔记法）式的个人知识管理与写作出版。评论从工具选型延伸到更根本的问题：笔记该记什么、以什么格式长期保存、以及如何保证以后能检索到。对写作者来说，这些讨论其实在谈“素材库”和“写作前的准备”。
可以直接用的写作要点
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先读 Sönke Ahrens 的《How to Take Smart Notes》弄懂卡片盒方法的原理，再挑工具；写作能力的提升来自笔记之间的连接，而不是编辑器功能。
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把记笔记当成有成本的行为：只有你打算反复调用的素材（选题、引文、案例）才值得手工记录，其余的交给搜索。
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用纯文本加轻量标记（Markdown）保存素材，避免被某个软件锁死，多年后仍能打开、检索、迁移。
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让“找得到”成为写作前的第一道工序：建立可搜索的素材库，因为找不到的笔记等于没记。
HN 评论精选
推荐从《How to Take Smart Notes》入手理解卡片盒笔记法，再谈工具选择。
很高兴“知识库管理”这类工具最近受到更多关注，看这个领域的人越多，整个生态就越好。我会下载试用，并和现有工作流对比（我在 Emacs 上用 org-roam）。想了解 Zettelkasten 和知识管理的人，建议先读 Sönke Ahrens 的《How to Take Smart Notes》。
bloopernova查看英文原文
I'm really happy that the "knowledge base management" type of tools are getting a lot more attention these days. In my opinion, the more brains that look at this area, the better the whole ecosystem will get. I'll have to download this and give it a try, and compare it to my current workflow. (I use org-roam on Emacs. I'm not sure if people are sick of org-mode and Emacs being mentioned on HN? I worry about becoming the stereotype of "how do you tell if someone is a Vegan (or uses Emacs)?" "Don't worry, they'll tell you". I don't want to derail any discussion though!) For those of you wondering about Zettelkasten and knowledge management, I suggest you start by reading "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sönke Ahrens: https://takesmartnotes.com/ and https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34507927-how-to-take-smart-notes
显式记笔记有成本，多数场景下搜索比建库更划算。
这波知识工具热潮忽略了人性的两点：一，如果我们有时间把东西录入知识库，那也有时间把它写在一张纸上；二，如果我们没时间或当下不觉得重要，那么解决问题的不是知识库，而是搜索。知识库很适合目标明确的学习（比如上大学），但在日常生活里，显式记笔记是一种成本，需要足够的动力才做得下去。我以前学新编程语言会用活页本记例子，最近一次只靠 Google 找 StackOverflow——我的成本收益线变了。
lifeisstillgood查看英文原文
I think this trend of better knowledge tools is missing two very important pieces of human nature 1. If we have time to enter something into a knowledge base of any kind - then we have time to just jot it on a piece of paper. 2. If we dont have time (or think it is important at that moment) then what solves the problem for us is not a knowledge base, but search. You see the thing about Google and Facebook etc, is that if they were collecting all this information about me, and it was treated like medical information about me it would be far more useful to me (and far less useful to Advertisers). I want a web browser that remembers every single page I have visited (#) and then lets me search them. Then someone could write a spaced reminder thingy for me - spent more than 5 minutes on a web page did he - he will want to refresh that page in 2 weeks and then 4 months. Yes, knowledge bases are excellent for clearly defined study efforts - like y'know, university, but for the rest of life, explicit note taking is a cost that we need some activation energy barrier for. Put it this way, once upon a time I had a study book for a new programming language, and i took notes of interesting examples on a ring binder. But the last time I learnt a new language I just relied on Google finding me the relevant StackOverflow pages - my cost/benefit line had changed. (And notes just got dumped into a text file.) (#) Ok maybe not those pages
选纯文本 + Markdown 保证长期可读可迁移，再靠搜索和互链让笔记真正可用。
笔记工具最近是热门话题。我长期用 Apple Notes，因为轻量极简，但最近几版 macOS 问题很多，于是我评测了各种方案并写成文章，成了我博客几个月来流量最高的文章之一。对我来说关键是：a) 纯文本文件、自己管理，不要数据库或强制自带同步；b) 用 Markdown。应用会来来去去，你可能换平台、换编辑器，所以格式要能被任何东西打开（纯文本），同时带轻量标记：编辑器能解析出好看的样子，你用眼睛读也能看出文档结构。然后就全靠搜索——笔记找不到就毫无意义。这也是支持笔记互链、比 Markdown 多一点东西的工具（Roam、Obsidian 等）越来越流行的原因。我最后选了 iA Writer，因为轻量、设计好、原生支持 Markdown；文件都是独立的，可以用 OneDrive 或任何方式同步。
dmytton查看英文原文
Note-taking seems to be a hot topic lately. I used Apple Notes for a long time because it was very lightweight and minimalist, but recent releases of macOS have been very buggy, so I decided to review all the options. I wrote this up at https://davidmytton.blog/the-best-note-taking-apps-for-mac-markdown-open-format-cross-platform/ which has become one of the most trafficked post on my blog in the last few months! The key for me is a) plain text files I can manage myself i.e. no database or mandatory custom sync; b) markdown. Apps will come and go. You might decide to switch platforms and maybe a new editor will come along sometime. This means you want a format that can be opened by anything (plain text) but with lightweight markup that the editor can parse to make it look nice, but you can also parse with your eyes and get a reasonable sense of the document structure (markdown). Then it's all about search. There's no point making notes if you can't find them. This is where something more than Markdown - that allows you to link notes - is handy. It's what is appearing more and more in the likes of Roam, Obsidian, etc. I ultimately chose iA Writer on macOS because it is lightweight and really nicely designed, plus has good native support for Markdown. I sync using OneDrive but you can use anything because they're all individual files. iA Writer is also native, and I find most Electron apps to be slow and/or buggy. There are exceptions e.g. VS Code, but I prefer native where possible.
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