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I would really love to experiment with org-zettelkasten. What's the easiest way to get this into emacs? Many thanks!

After loading the package, trying to do some things (like org-zk-new-file) results in an error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable org-zk-collections)
  org-zk-select-collection(#f(compiled-function (c) #<bytecode 0x46a71a9d>))
  org-zk-new-file()
  ...

M-x describe-variable has nothing to say about org-zk-collections

I prefer to use the customize interface rather than setq, and I think good variable descriptions are important for usability; both could be accomplished by using defcustom

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Hi,

I just stumbled upon this repo. It looks really interesting, and I'm surprised I haven't seen it before. Have you been trying to keep it secret? =)

I see that you use org-ql and ts, which is cool!

I also see that you have made your own caching mechanism. I guess you know that org-ql has two kinds of caches already (actually 3, counting the tags cache, but I've yet to merge that with the node-value cache), so I would love to hear about why you implemented your own. I had the idea recently to factor out org-ql's cache into a separate library, and Nicolas Goaziou has also discussed the idea of having some kind of cache built-in to Org someday, so it would be great if a single implementation could meet all of our needs.

Also, I see that you have some kind of query language or system, and that you have a Xapian backend. One of the long-term ideas I've had for org-ql, since I was working on helm-org-rifle years ago, is to have an indexed backend for files that aren't already open in Emacs. I have a branch on the org-rifle repo that implements a PoC SQLite index for Org files based on John Kitchin's work, but I haven't worked on it in a long time. Ideally that would be a separate package that could provide an org-ql backend.

Anyway, it looks like you're doing some really interesting work here. If there are any shortcomings of org-ql that could be addressed to meet your needs better, please let me know. Maybe we could collaborate on some solutions that would help everyone.

BTW, a couple of quick tips or ideas from looking at a small bit of your code:

• org-zettelkasten/org-zk-cache.el

  Line 309 in e2ffd4d

  ;; TODO: There has to be a better way

  There isn't exactly an officially better way; several packages do things like this. It is Lisp, after all. But there are some packages that provide some solutions, e.g. pcache. There's another one I'm trying to think of--I think it was by Radon Rosborough, so I guess I'm thinking of https://github.com/raxod502/prescient.el (the package's primary purpose is not to provide that functionality, but he wrote some code to do it that he wasn't interested in factoring out into a library).

• org-zettelkasten/org-zk-cache.el

  Line 199 in e2ffd4d

  (org-mode)

  You might want to use delay-mode-hooks here.

Thanks!