Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by vincent_s » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 10:54 AM UTC

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

#2

Post by VectorLock » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:45 PM UTC

With all the posts on HN about paid personal knowledge bases like Roam I'm excited to see a free and open one leveraging my favorite editor.

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

#3

Post by xyst » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:45 PM UTC

side note: I really want those cpu/ram/network metrics in my shell instance as well. Anybody know how this person does that?

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Post by cellshade » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:47 PM UTC

xyst wrote: post #3

side note: I really want those cpu/ram/network metrics in my shell instance as well. Anybody know how this person does that?

It looks like tmux.

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by alexktz » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:50 PM UTC

VectorLock wrote: post #2

With all the posts on HN about paid personal knowledge bases like Roam I'm excited to see a free and open one leveraging my favorite editor.

Check out org-roam.

It does have the emacs string attached but I've been using doom emacs with it (for vim keybindings) and the learning curve is 100% worth it. 3 weeks in and I haven't looked back here.

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by ludami » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:52 PM UTC

VectorLock wrote: post #2

With all the posts on HN about paid personal knowledge bases like Roam I'm excited to see a free and open one leveraging my favorite editor.

I've been using Vimwiki for years. I've tried other note taking/todo listing/whatever solutions but I always end up back at Vimwiki. The only thing better than it that I've found is Emacs' OrgMode.

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Post by dghf » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:54 PM UTC

xyst wrote: post #3

side note: I really want those cpu/ram/network metrics in my shell instance as well. Anybody know how this person does that?

I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think they're actually in the shell. I think that's a status bar for a tiling WM, possibly xmonad.

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by kwkelly » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:58 PM UTC

xyst wrote: post #3

side note: I really want those cpu/ram/network metrics in my shell instance as well. Anybody know how this person does that?

Those are the icons that iTerm for macOS uses, so it might be that. To configure: Preferences > Profiles > Session > Configure Status Bar.

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by arichard123 » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:58 PM UTC

I've been using vim-wiki for years. I'm a satisfied user. It supports alternative syntaxes, and I use markdown. I like that I can link to a folder on my local machine, or a file, or a web page and it loads in the correct application. With thunderlink I can also link to specific emails and have them open in Thunderbird.

I also use github.com/Konfekt/FastFold to make the folding fast enough to be useful, and github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown to make vim understand the right way to fold.

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by nchase » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 2:08 PM UTC

Is this anything like "org mode" for Vim?

I am not an org mode user, but I've heard people gush over it.