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Emacs org-mode
This, plus Orgzly on my phone, because I don't always have a computer on me.
mobile: termux + vim windows: cygwin vim chromeOS: crouton vim
Tried evil with OrgMode and deft but always come back to VimWiki
TiddlyWiki if only non-mobile
If on the Mac ecosystem, Bear is Apple notes but with fewer sync bugs and more useful features (like a close cousin of markdown and amazing tagging). I've switched to that for notes that might stick around for a while (from Evernote and Apple notes, though I still forward emails into the former as a convenient archive). For transient notes (like shopping lists etc.) I just use drafts on iOS. Seems to work for me afte…
For anything more technical I use Quiver which supports MarkDown, code with pretty printing, LaTex and diagram markup, but it doesn't have an iPad editor (just reader).
As I’m fully in the Apple ecosystem I now just use Apple Notes and in all honesty am totally happy with it. It’s fairly simple but does everything I need for free.
I also use Notability on the iPad for when I want to scribble something with the Apple Pencil and am also quite happy with that!
* Everyday I use https://marxi.co to write my technical work journals in Markdown (with nice extensions like flowcharts) that gets rendered into rich text format within Evernote
* I archive and tag each article I read with the Evernote Web Clipper, because URLs always go stale so you want your own copy.
* Evernote works with https://ifttt.com so it integrates seamlessly with my other applications and workflows
* Evernote is also capable of OCR within PDFs if you use the paid pro version.
* This means that all sorts of note taking is in a single place, making it a breeze to quickly search.
I pay for Evernote to get around the device limit, offline usage etc, as the free version is pretty crippled. I know there are definitely cheaper alternatives in terms of price, but I feel it's worth it for all the features available because I value my precious time, which I don't want to consume more of to maintain the same set of features using FOSS alternatives. Good thing is that Evernote allows export to a human readable archive format which I use to ensure that I have a personal copy of the notes to prevent vendor lock-in.
EDIT: Just formatting
That said, I've recently been using Notion for EVERYTHING at work, and now considering if I could do likewise for my personal notes/essays.
PS. It's funny how the intense competition between 'distraction-free' writing tools has almost become distracting in its own right.
Gmail. Create a new email as a draft, you can access it on any computer or any phone and the search function is all-powerful.
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Are you memory conscious because you're downloading this to some embedded device? Serious question.
The idea that i am using inefficient software boggles my mind. My laptop SSD is 128gb. Unpacked version of this software would be 100MB+ installation. It will also take a lot of my RAM during usage. So for a "truly minimal markdown editor" i get such a monster in my system. Lets take another monster, Visual Studio Code. Its installation is 72mb, but i get so much more installing it including markdown editor.