Evolving my note-taking processes
reddit / emacs

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codethrasher · 2022-09-09 20:25



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00-11 · 2022-09-09 22:57

Have you considered using bookmarks? Bookmarks can have annotations,
which can be context-specific (i.e., located) notes.

If you use [Bookmark+](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus)
then:

1.  A bookmark [annotation](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPl
us#BookmarkAnnotations) is in Org mode by default, and it can be an
indirection-- it can take you to another Org mode file (e.g. for
extensive notes).

2. You can label/categorize your bookmarks (IOW your notes) with
[arbitrary
tags](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkTags). You
can use tags to organize your notes (e.g. can be hierarchical,
overlapping, independent...) and help you find them.

3. You can optionally [highlight bookmarked locations](https://www.ema
cswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#HighlightingBookmarkLocations), so that
when you're in some document with some locations that have been
bookmarked you can see where they are and pop up their annotations
there.

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publicvoit · 2022-09-12 10:02

You might be interested in reading https://karl-
voit.at/2020/07/22/org-super-links/ where I describe how I create
links with backlinks.