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I was jumping from one note taking app to another before realizing I have to develop my own to be fully satisfied: https://github.com/zadam/trilium
I was jumping from one note taking app to another before realizing I have to develop my own to be fully satisfied: https://github.com/zadam/trilium
This looks amazing. Any thoughts on what it would take to turn it into a minimally usable PWA so that I could carry things I consider important with me even in offline mode?
For managing a personal knowledge base, I highly recommend Tiddly Wiki[1] It's a self-contained Wiki/Notebook/Journal with tags, it works instantly, and all of it is in a single HTML file with magic JS in it. Or you can use it with a server. [1] https://tiddlywiki.com/
I would love an alternative that is free/and or possible to self-host. However, I do not see how this compares to Notion. How do I edit this HTML file on my phone? How do I add bookmarks to it via a hotkey? What is the equivalent of Notion's databases? Does it have Slash commands? This list of questions could go on for much longer. I really don't want to sound like a Notion shill, especially since I also use other to…
>How do I edit this HTML file on my phone?
Open https://tiddlywiki.com/, click the pencil icon on any of the entries. Edit away. The edits can persist with a self-hosted solution. Or you can just download the edited HTML file.
>Does it have Slash commands?
You probably mean "keyboard shortcuts". Yes, a plenty. Get started here:
https://tiddlywiki.com/static/KeyboardShortcuts.html
This doesn't cover all of it; there are shortcuts in the editor (Ctrl+B, for example to make text bold), and they are fully customizeable. Everything can be customized.
>How do I add bookmarks to it via a hotkey?
TiddlyWiki is tag-based. You can add tags with a keyboard. Tags define all the structure (table of contents and search).
>What is the equivalent of Notion's databases?
I am not familiar enough with Notion to answer this. If you ask "can I do ____ with TW", I can tell you.
>but many of the suggested alternatives lack basically all the features that I describe in my post
Sure, because they are different products. Feature-by-feature comparison doesn't make sense; if you want Notion, you need Notion.
If you want to organize your knowledge, Tiddly Wiki is one very fine tool to do that.
TW is not a CRM, it is not a Calendar or Google Sheets alternative (as Notion claims to be). It is not an all-in-one tool.
What it is, it's a personal knowledge base tool - and that's what the title of your post says. At that, it can do better than Notion. Or worse. User's call.
>This list of questions could go on for much longer.
The same can be true going from the other side. Here is one:
How do you access your knowledge in Notion 10 years after Notion-the-company goes the way of the dodo?
I've used Onenote, Org Mode in Emacs but I am very happy to have discovered Bear Notes (https://bear.app/) last. year. It has really changed how much I document, work with text, store info etc.
Bear handles images, lists etc inline. It allows for very easy tagging (creating hierarchies) etc. And it looks really nice. Even with good fonts, Org Mode never really looked pleasing to me [0]. And I found that easthetics is really important for me to actually use the tool.
Bear uses SQLite for storage, which can be accessed with any SQLite tool (I've tested it). And it can also do batch export to a number or formats. The exported files looks good and can easily be imported into other tools, for example Org Mode (I've tested it). Bear can also export to PDF with styles. I actually use this to export my notes as reports to the company board, customers etc. And I've gotten compliments on how good the reports looks. ;-)
Finally Bear syncs easily. I can now work with my notes on the phone, iPad and laptop.
If I only could get the tool to use a solid, non-blinking caret life would be a bliss. Go Bear!
Does anyone else use plain text notes for everything? I've tried to optimize things so that while working, I can get things jotted down with close to zero resistance. If the barrier of entry is too high then I don't bother doing it. That means often being able to spawn a new terminal, write a command and be done with it. Or to be able to pipe something from my clipboard into an auto-dated file. I ended up putting tog…
Does anyone else use plain text notes for everything? I've tried to optimize things so that while working, I can get things jotted down with close to zero resistance. If the barrier of entry is too high then I don't bother doing it. That means often being able to spawn a new terminal, write a command and be done with it. Or to be able to pipe something from my clipboard into an auto-dated file. I ended up putting tog…
I'm experimenting with a single 500K+ line-long flat text file for EVERYTHING, from dream journalling to work email drafts to blog posts etc. -- I've even copied math from my home whiteboard in latex -- screw rendering, I'll transcribe them back when I need them. At one point I was trying to do a Luhmann's Zettelkasten with one note per txt file, internal linking, etc. I concatenated every piece of txt content I had.…
Among all the organization/notetaking methods I've tried, this is really the best. No fancy app in the browser, but really effective and fast.
I've written a small article about it here:
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Fully agree. I was turned off notion for the same reason and reverted back to self-hosting dokuwiki. A much more limited feature set, to be sure, but at least I'll still have my notes 10 years from now.
If there was an open source notion, where would you prefer storage to take place? BYOFS?