meta

A notebook for this project itself.

This project is called a “cabinet” which is a reference to a physical zettelkasten setup which is likely to involve a card cabinet, and this project uses org-roam to provide that model

Setup

This provides documentation for two modes of setup, self-contained and embedded.

Self-Contained

A self contained setup is one where the directoy acts as an independent cabinet. This makes use of .dir-locals.

This has the advantage of not accidentally getting tangled with any other org-roam configurations, but has the disadvantage that it can’t become part of a larger subgraph.

.dir-locals.el

To prepare for working with this repository, the .dir-locals.el file must be tangled to configure the directory variables that can be used for a local org-roam cabinet.

.dir-locals.el makes use of static values, so this leverages some noweb expansion to populate the appropriate directory at the time of tangling.

default-directory

((nil . ((org-roam-directory  . "<<pwd()>>")
         (org-roam-db-location . "<<pwd()>>org-roam.db"))))

org-roam-directory

org-roam-db-location

Embedded

An embdded setup is one in which this is loaded a subdirectory of an existing cabinet.

The model used in this case is that this should be treated as somewhat of a public tenant within a wider graph, and that the enclosing cabinet should be able to reference the data within this subgraph, but edges going in the other direction should be avoided/prevented.