A question often asked, and rightfully so, is why zetteldeft doesn’t use any of the built-in emacs types of links, such as provided by org-mode, for example.

There are a couple of reasons for this.

• Zetteldeft is not limited to Org-mode, but can be used in and from any mode.
• Org-mode links depend on filenames and might break when files are moved or the filename changes.
• I want to prevent lock in as much as possible. Many people use a Markdown-based system, and you could perfectly use Zetteldeft together with other applications that make Markdown notes (theoretically at least – I haven’t tested this myself)

This means that, with some tweaking, Zetteldeft kan work with [[[[./2020-01-05-2214 START HERE.org][§2020-01-05-2214]] these types]] of links and Markdown files, so that it plays nicely with The Archive for example.

See §2020-04-17-1532 for further notes on how to set up Zetteldeft similar to The Archive via customization.

For Org-mode links, look at §2020-03-25-0928.