Welcome to Zetteldeft, the note linking system on top of Deft. Using Zetteldeft allows you to create a set of interlinked notes, thus implementing a Zettelkasten like system.

You are now reading the Zetteldeft tutorial.

If don’t already have Zetteldeft installed, please take a look at the START HERE file (§2020-01-05-2214) first.

To continue this tutorial, please make sure the Deft directory is set to the directory where this file resides, by executing the code below (simply hit C-c C-c in the source block below):

(setq deft-directory default-directory)
(deft)
(deft-refresh)

The one keybinding you need to know to get started, is C-c d f (or zetteldeft-follow-link), to select links to follow.

With this knowledge, you are ready to read on.

You could

• learn the basic Zetteldeft commands (§2020-02-15-1626),
• look at Zetteldeft ID and link concepts (§2020-05-10-1552),
• learn how to use tags (§2021-03-29-2226),
• check out more commands (§2020-04-27-2348),
• export your notes (§2020-10-06-1014),
• maybe read up on Zetteldeft history (§2020-02-14-2240),
• look at some advanced features (§2020-04-27-2358),
• expand Zetteldeft with code snippets (§2020-04-17-1605),
• or learn how to customize your Zetteldeft (§2020-05-13-1815).