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Moved zettelkasten storage to committed .zettelkasten/ (mirrors .memory/)

Angelo › zettelkasten › Phase 2: Literature Review System

Type: Decision · Status: active · Created: 2026-06-18

Zettelkasten note data now lives in a committed .zettelkasten/ tree at the repo root, mirroring how .memory/ is committed, instead of the gitignored .angelo/zettelkasten/. Only the disposable embedding caches under .angelo/zettel/<box>.kgl stay gitignored.

What changed: - zettelkasten/graph.py _default_graphs_dir() now defaults to .zettelkasten/, keeping .angelo/zettelkasten/ and .cassius/zettelkasten/ as legacy fallbacks (only used if .zettelkasten/ is absent). - .gitignore + angelo_cli CORE_IGNORES: dropped the .zettelkasten/ ignore line so the tree is committed. - MCP templates (.cursor/mcp.json, angelo_cli/data/mcp-zettelkasten.json, angelo_cli/data/claude/mcp-zettelkasten.json): ZETTELKASTEN_PATH repointed to .zettelkasten. - Docs: _schema.yaml, README.md, and the dashboard delete-barrier comment updated.

Seamless upgrade path: added _migrate_zettelkasten_layout() + _repoint_zettelkasten_env() to angelo_cli, wired into both angelo update and angelo init. On upgrade it moves .angelo/zettelkasten/ -> .zettelkasten/ (skips if target exists, never overwrites) and repoints any angelo-managed ZETTELKASTEN_PATH from the old .angelo/zettelkasten value to .zettelkasten. This is necessary because _reconcile_mcp_json only backfills missing env keys and never rewrites a user-set value. Custom user paths are left untouched; idempotent. Verified the move, GRAPHS_DIR resolution, and the env-repoint (managed rewritten, custom preserved, no-op on rerun).

This repo's existing investments graph (31 files) was migrated and committed in 10b772dd.

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Source: memory entry deci-02340ef7.