The `vim-zettel` package

This is a Vim plugin that implements ideas of the Zettelkasten method using Vimwiki. It supports both Vimwiki and Markdown syntaxes.

Main features:

customizable filenames (date and time, title, consecutive numbering)
links always show titles, regardless of the actual filename
fulltext support using FZF for searching and hyperlinking
search your Zettelkasten from LaTeX or Markdown documents and insert selected notes to the document
template support
automatically updated tag index
backlinks

You can read the full documentation using

:help vim-zettel

command in Vim after package installation.

Install

Plugin 'vimwiki/vimwiki'
Plugin 'junegunn/fzf'
Plugin 'junegunn/fzf.vim'
Plugin 'michal-h21/vim-zettel'

call plug#begin()
Plug 'vimwiki/vimwiki'
Plug 'junegunn/fzf'
Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim'
Plug 'michal-h21/vim-zettel'
call plug#end()

Silver Searcher is used for searching in the notes by default. The used command can be changed by setting the g:zettel_fzf_command variable.

Vim-zettel adds some commands and mappings on top of Vimwiki. See Vimwiki documentation on how to set up a basic wiki and navigate it.

ZettelOpen and ZettelSearch fail because of an "Error running fzf...". This issue is probably caused by too old version of FZF on your machine. Try to update both fzf binary and fzf.vim.

The following packages may be useful in conjunction with Vimwiki and Vim-zettel:

Notational FZF - fast searching notes with preview window. Similar functionality is now built in in Vim-Zettel using :ZettelOpen command.

To search in the Zettelkasten, set the following variable with path to the Zettelkasten directory in .vimrc:

let g:nv_search_paths = ['/path/to/zettelkasten/dir']

Vimwiki-sync - automatically commit changes in wiki and synchronize them with external Git repository.