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Again, this is an evolving concept, and updating the TextExpander snippet as my preference emerges is trivial work. I could type this in every time, but life is too short for that so I have a TextExpander snippet that puts this in for me with the shortcode вЂxznвЂ™ (X - my standard shortcode start, Z - Zettlr, N - note). I then use a standard format for the text (body) of the note which includes a YAML title and keywords. My preferred style is still evolving, as will yours. If you are new to this way of working, then just start, and donвЂ™t worry about everything being done вЂrightвЂ™ straight away.

Please be aware, I have changed my mind about this several times already, and no, I have not studiously gone back and updated all of my previous notes to reflect the latest format every time (gasp!). I am currently going with the default YYYYMMDDhhmmss.md file format within Zettlr for all note filenames. The В§ at the front of the filename ensure that I can sort alphabetically and have these top-level notes at the top of my directory listing. I think of this as a hierarchy, with ] being the top level, and ] as a current to-do type of list. That bigger list of things that IвЂ™d like to do or think about is kept in ] so that I donвЂ™t have to actually keep it all in my mind. These are things that I am actually working on, not everything that I want to do at some future time. I still need to make some connection to the book itself, which comes next. I also link (or index if you prefer) the note for the review from (or in) ], as it is something that I am currently working on. I link the general note about the book, and the review to each other.

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In this case, the title is the name of the book, and keywords вЂbook_reviewвЂ™ because itвЂ™s a book review, вЂxyzвЂ™ for my eventual personal publication site, and вЂBACPвЂ™ for the professional publication. For a long time I used LibreOffice to write everything, mostly because of the number of people who required.

Yes, I write it all in markdown, using Zettlr. This is what will become the book review.

I know that IвЂ™m going to need another new note, so may as well make it now. I want to make a link here between the note about the book, and the book itself, but this needs a little more work elsewhere first. This is not the note that will become the review, but will instead come to contain either a summary, or an index of more detailed notes about the book. This is my starting point, from which everything else flows. IвЂ™m writing a book review for a magazine from one of my professional bodies. IвЂ™m relatively new to this way of working and learning as I go, but so far it seems to be helping me a lot. On this note, I am not in any way an expert on Zettlr, or Zettelkasten. As the genesis of this was to expand on how I use Zettlr, I hope that this will also be adequately addressed and prove helpful for others. In stepping through the process, then my workflow will become clearer (to me, as well as you). In the spirit of вЂњworking with the garage door openвЂќ IвЂ™m using a task that IвЂ™m working on right now. Following some discussions over on the Zettlr forum IвЂ™m attempting to write up my workflow in some kind of coherent fashion.

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