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Zettelkasten Notes

Build a personal knowledge base with [[bidirectional links]], tags, backlinks, search, note metadata, and import/export. Implements Zettelkasten method

Developers building a personal knowledge base need a way to link ideas together, not just file them away. This Zettelkasten-style note tool lets you create interconnected notes with bi-directional links, tags, and a visual graph of connections, all stored locally in your browser.

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Zettelkasten Notes: a worked example

You are building a network of linked atomic notes and want the connections to be navigable, not buried in a folder tree.

A note you write

Title: Spaced repetition
Body: Works because retrieval strengthens memory. See [[Active recall]] and [[Forgetting curve]].
Zettelkasten Notes produces

What the system builds

Note "Spaced repetition" links → Active recall, Forgetting curve
Backlinks panel on "Active recall" now shows ← Spaced repetition
Graph view connects the three notes

The Zettelkasten method favours many small, single-idea notes connected by explicit `[[wikilinks]]` over deep hierarchies. Typing a link automatically creates the reverse "backlink" on the target note, so knowledge accretes as a navigable graph, everything stored locally in your browser.

Connected notes for connected thinking

Developers building a personal knowledge base need a way to link ideas together, not just file them away. This Zettelkasten-style note tool lets you create interconnected notes with bi-directional links, tags, and a visual graph of connections, all stored locally in your browser.

Key features

  • Bi-directional note linking with [[wiki-style]] syntax
  • Tag-based organization
  • Visual knowledge graph
  • Markdown support
  • Full-text search across all notes
  • Local storage, your notes stay on your device

How to use

  1. 1Create a new note with a descriptive title.
  2. 2Write your note using Markdown syntax.
  3. 3Link to other notes using [[double brackets]].
  4. 4Add tags to group related notes.
  5. 5Explore the knowledge graph to find connections.

How it works

Zettelkasten Notes is a browser-based linked-note workspace that uses wiki-style double-bracket syntax to connect ideas. When you save a note, the tool scans its body with the pattern /\[\[([^\]]+)\]\]/g, pulls out every [[Note Title]] reference, and resolves each one against your existing notes by exact, case-sensitive title match (excluding the note itself), storing the result as a list of internal note IDs on that note. In the rendered (non-editing) view, a reference that matches a real note appears as a clickable blue link that jumps you to that note, while a reference with no matching title is shown in red so you can spot broken or not-yet-created links. An "Add Link" picker lets you insert a reference without typing it: choosing a note appends ` [[That Note's Title]]` to the current content.

The graph is bidirectional without any manual bookkeeping. Each note carries a links array of the IDs it points to, and the tool derives backlinks on the fly by filtering for every note whose links array contains the currently active note's ID, displaying them in a separate "Backlinks" panel (green) alongside the outgoing "Links" panel (blue), each showing a live count. Because links are keyed by ID rather than title, deleting a note also walks every remaining note and strips that ID out of their links, so removing a note never leaves a dangling reference in the graph (though the literal [[Old Title]] text left in other notes' bodies will then render red as an unresolved link). Note that renaming a note does not retroactively rewrite [[old title]] text elsewhere, since links are recomputed from content only on save.

All data lives entirely in your browser under the localStorage key 'toolbox-zettelkasten', and the full note array is rewritten there on every change, so notes persist across reloads with no account or server. Tags are entered as a comma-separated string and normalized on save: each is trimmed and lowercased, and empty entries are dropped, so "Idea, , PHYSICS" becomes the tags idea and physics. The sidebar search matches your query case-insensitively against note titles, content, and tags simultaneously, and an additional tag filter narrows the list to a single tag. You can export the entire collection as a pretty-printed zettelkasten-notes.json file (JSON.stringify with 2-space indentation) and re-import notes from a JSON file: a parsed array is prepended to your current set rather than replacing it, while a file that fails to parse as JSON is rejected with an "Invalid file format" alert (valid JSON that is not an array is simply ignored with no change).

Examples

  • Linking two notes

    Create a note titled "Spaced Repetition", then in another note write "See [[Spaced Repetition]] for review timing." On save the bracketed text resolves to that note's ID and renders as a blue clickable link, while the "Spaced Repetition" note now shows the linking note under its Backlinks panel automatically.

  • Tag normalization

    Entering "Memory, , Learning Science" in the comma-separated Tags field saves the tags memory and learning science (trimmed, lowercased, empty entry dropped), which then appear as #memory and #learning science chips and become clickable filters in the sidebar.

Tips & best practices

  • Create the target note first (or with the exact title) before linking, since [[references]] only turn into clickable blue links when a note with that exact, case-sensitive title exists; otherwise they stay red.
  • Use the 'Add Link' button while editing to append a correctly-titled [[reference]] instead of typing it by hand, which avoids title-mismatch typos.
  • Export regularly: all notes live only in this browser's localStorage under 'toolbox-zettelkasten', so clearing site data wipes them. The exported zettelkasten-notes.json can be re-imported (it prepends, so importing the same file twice duplicates notes).

Practical scenarios

  • Research synthesis

    Connect ideas from papers, articles, and books into a web of knowledge that reveals patterns.

  • Learning journals

    Link new concepts to existing knowledge, reinforcing understanding through explicit connections.

  • Project brainstorming

    Capture scattered ideas and watch themes emerge as you link related notes together.

Frequently asked questions

What is Zettelkasten?

A note-taking method based on small, atomic notes connected through links. The value comes from the connections between notes, not the notes themselves.

Can I export my notes?

Notes can be exported as Markdown files, making them portable to other tools like Obsidian or Logseq.

Is there a limit on how many notes I can create?

The practical limit is your browser's local storage capacity, which is typically around 5-10 MB of text, enough for thousands of notes.

Private by design

This runs as client-side JavaScript. Keys, tokens, payloads, and other inputs never leave your device.