Text Editing

zk – plain text note-taking assistant

zk is a command-line tool helping you to maintain a plain text Zettelkasten or personal wiki.

A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing that creates an interconnected web of thought.

This is free and open source software.

Features include

  • Create notes. zk automatically generates a filename and initial content according to rules set in your configuration file. These settings can be customized per group of notes in your notebook, as illustrated in Maintaining a daily journal.
  • Searching and filtering notes including a full-text search database enabling near-instant results.
  • Integration with editors: Neovim and Visual Studio Code.
  • Integration with fzf, which power’s zk’s interactive filtering mode.
  • Command aliases – custom zk commands which can run another zk command or an external program.
  • Automation support:
    • Write command aliases or named filters for repeated complex commands.
    • Call zk from other programs.
    • Send notes for processing by other programs.
    • Create a note with initial content from a standard input pipe.
  • Notebook housekeeping.
  • Relies on simple plain text formats such as Markdown.

Website: github.com/zk-org/zk
Support:
Developer: Mickaël Menu
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

zk help

zk is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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