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Re: How to Take Smart Notes

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Post by cc9one »

AlphaWeaver wrote: post #74

In the realm of note taking and personal knowledge management apps, I've been shopping around recently. Notion is very popular, and Roam Research [0] has been the popular scrappy upstart that people have been looking at, but I've been unhappy with these since neither has an API (and neither are open source.) I would _strongly_ urge HN readers to take a look at Tiddlywiki [1]. It's popped up on Hacker News before, and…

This comment introduced me to TiddlyWiki, and I am quite happy with it so far. Does anyone have a recommendation for a markdown plug-in? The markdown plug-in from their website is no longer available. Thanks!

Re: How to Take Smart Notes

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Post by AlphaWeaver »

cc9one wrote: post #111
AlphaWeaver wrote: post #74

In the realm of note taking and personal knowledge management apps, I've been shopping around recently. Notion is very popular, and Roam Research [0] has been the popular scrappy upstart that people have been looking at, but I've been unhappy with these since neither has an API (and neither are open source.) I would _strongly_ urge HN readers to take a look at Tiddlywiki [1]. It's popped up on Hacker News before, and…

This comment introduced me to TiddlyWiki, and I am quite happy with it so far. Does anyone have a recommendation for a markdown plug-in? The markdown plug-in from their website is no longer available. Thanks!

I haven't looked very far, but if there isn't a decent plugin for it yet, it likely isn't incredibly hard to make.

Here [0] is a link to a view I created that links to a markdown plugin (which should still work) as well as to information about TW's plugin architecture. If you're interested in learning even more about TW's internal architecture, check out their developer documentation here [1].

[0]: https://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2Fconfig%2FPageControlButtons...

[1]: https://tiddlywiki.com/dev

Re: How to Take Smart Notes

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Post by cc9one »

AlphaWeaver wrote: post #112
cc9one wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment introduced me to TiddlyWiki, and I am quite happy with it so far. Does anyone have a recommendation for a markdown plug-in? The markdown plug-in from their website is no longer available. Thanks!

I haven't looked very far, but if there isn't a decent plugin for it yet, it likely isn't incredibly hard to make. Here [0] is a link to a view I created that links to a markdown plugin (which should still work) as well as to information about TW's plugin architecture. If you're interested in learning even more about TW's internal architecture, check out their developer documentation here [1]. [0]: https://tiddlywiki…

This is great! Thank you. Do you have any other plug-in recommendations that you have found useful?

Re: How to Take Smart Notes

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Post by AlphaWeaver »

cc9one wrote: post #113
AlphaWeaver wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't looked very far, but if there isn't a decent plugin for it yet, it likely isn't incredibly hard to make. Here [0] is a link to a view I created that links to a markdown plugin (which should still work) as well as to information about TW's plugin architecture. If you're interested in learning even more about TW's internal architecture, check out their developer documentation here [1]. [0]: https://tiddlywiki…

This is great! Thank you. Do you have any other plug-in recommendations that you have found useful?

I'm still exploring myself, but you should check with me in a few weeks! My website (which has my email) is in my profile!

Re: How to Take Smart Notes

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Post by davegauer »

arminiusreturns wrote: post #62
asterisk_ wrote: post #33

Note-taking seems to have gained popularity on HackerNews over the past few weeks (or my attention has been biased towards these submissions, at least). I've long been interested in the domain of "personal knowledge engineering" and this clearly seems a common thread within our community. As a brief overview of the "SOTA:" * Emacs and Vim users skew towards Org-mode or Vim wiki. * Roam Research is sort of a recent we…

As a long time emacs org mode user, I would say that both vim/emacs users (and others) should check out asciidoc/asciidoctor. I have been doing more and more things in them and find myself really enjoying the simplicity (and shareability with those who don't emacs/vim) mainly when targetting html or pdf exporting. I find myself wishing there was an org mode to asciidoc exporter lately.

Wow, I'm late to this party, but what the heck:

I've been obsessing about this for a long time and concluded, as you have, that AsciiDoc is the One True markup format for me.

I don't have anything to offer an Emacs user, but I have created my own Vim wiki plugin[1] which is heavily inspired by VimWiki and uses AsciiDoc as the native syntax. The plugin is pretty much brand spanking new, but I use it all day every day.

I've already converted some of my note extraction tools to pull from this wiki format and the dream is, ultimately, to have everything including my website pull from this one source.

[1] https://github.com/ratfactor/vviki/

Re: How to Take Smart Notes

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Post by tfolbrecht »

celeritascelery wrote: post #66
tfolbrecht wrote: post #49

There so many posts with stuff like this, but what’s really had a positive impact for me is using my own custom notation. Nothing fancy, no org mode, wikis, markdown, just brackets and characters.

Why has that worked better for you?

It's concise, simple, portable so I can use whatever text editor or notes app. I've gotten burnt out on switching.
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