Possible to have multiple zettelkastens? about zetteldeft

[anthrolisp]

Perfect. I created a hydra. Thank you again!

(defun zd-a ()
  (interactive)
(deft)
  (setq deft-directory "~/zd-a/")
  (deft-refresh))

(defun zd-b ()
(deft)
  (interactive)
  (setq deft-directory "~/zd-b/")
  (deft-refresh))

;(require 'hydra)
(defhydra zd-switch (nil nil :foreign-keys nil :hint nil :exit t)
  "
Open:
----------------------
_m_ A zettelkasten
_t_ B zettelkasten

_q_ quit"
  ("q" nil)
  ("a" zd-a)
  ("b" zd-b))
(global-set-key (kbd "<f9>") 'zd-switch/body)

[gklimowicz]

I do this between three Zettelkasten. I use functions, like the ones above, but also take the liberty of changing other settings:

(defun gk/nv ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum))
    (setq deft-directory "~/NVIDIA")
    (setq deft-recursive nil)
    (setq deft-file-limit 200)
    (setq zetteldeft-id-format "%Y%m%d-%H%M")
    (deft-refresh)))

Seems to work so far. (Since some of these have several thousand notes, I suspend garbage collection during the deft-refresh.)

[EFLS]

This is more related to deft than it is to zetteldeft.

Anyway, it should be easy for you to achieve something like this in your private setup: change the variable deft-directory and call deft-refresh afterwards. To let a simple function do that for you:

(defun set-zd-dir ()
  (interactive)
  (setq deft-directory "~/mydir")
  (deft-refresh))

You could make another function to switch back to your original directory. What it doesn't allow, however, is using two directories at once: zetteldeft wont find links between them, since it looks only in one deft directory at a time.

Does this suffice for your workflow?

[anthrolisp]

Awesome. Thank you!
I can switch into my second zd now. Curious about the best way to switch between them. Is there a simple way, to make the new function either switch back to the other, or else list a pre-set number of directories to select from?
Thanks again! Zetteldeft is an awesome package!

[EFLS]

The easiest would be to write two separate functions. Simply set the deft-directory variable accordingly. You could make a more complex function that prompts for a directory, but this is the simplest approach.

One thing to note: I think deft-refresh only works when deft is already loaded, so you need to start deft (with the default directory) before you can switch to another one.

Glad to hear that zetteldeft is of use to you. That's my reason to share it: to contribute to the wonderful emacs community that I benefit so much from.

[EFLS]

I've included these code snippets in zd-tutorial.