# zk: plain text note-taking assistant for Zettelkasten and personal wikis, README overview

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- categories: T01 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-11-07T15:32:27.950Z
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The README presents zk as a command-line assistant for keeping a plain text Zettelkasten or personal wiki.

Source: https://github.com/zk-org/zk

What it supplies: The README presents zk as a command-line assistant for keeping a plain text Zettelkasten or personal wiki.

Useful for: - Create notes from templates and search them by tags, links and mentions.
- Edit in your own editor through LSP or the listed plugins.
- Use Markdown links, wikilinks and several tag styles.

First action: - On macOS install with brew install zk, or download a pre-built binary from the releases page.
- On Windows follow the README advice and build from source.
- Follow the getting-started page the README links.

Prerequisites and limits: The README gives no version. The interactive browser is powered by fzf.

- zk is not a note editor and does not serve notes on the web.
- Pre-built binaries are not code-signed and some Windows binaries have been flagged by security tools.

The README text read states no licence, so check the repository licence file.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on opening, highlights and install README text only; later sections and code were not read. Nothing was installed or run.

Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zk-org/zk/9ef7644e179a772ae3c6569310cc43102f3bb2da/README.md ; 5862 bytes ; sha256 3fc829e1da4bad2c35891e4d97a2710004970ea14c5c78aa4e81cc8ff0081cd6 ; 7 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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