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Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by Maha-pudma »

bachmeier wrote: post #16
hd4 wrote: post #12

I want to put in a good word for zim-wiki here. Its a shame the Windows port seems to be on indefinite hiatus for now. Its by far the easiest GUI-based wiki to deal with, easily handles just dropping in files into a hierarchy and simply working with them after a refresh. Sorry but being able to use a mouse to navigate a wiki beats out a keyboard-based wiki any time. https://zim-wiki.org/

Zim has its good points, but the biggest problem I have with it is the inability to wrap lines shorter than the full monitor width. On a 13" laptop, it's usable; on a widescreen desktop monitor it just doesn't work. Other wikis like tiddlywiki, pmwiki, and dokuwiki are able to avoid this.

Certainly not had that problem myself but one of the reasons I use zim-wiki is because it supports displaying embedded pictures which for certain things is very useful.

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by udfalkso »

camillovisini wrote: post #40
udfalkso wrote: post #38

I’ve been using vimwiki for a while now and it seems to fit the way I work the best of all the options out there. But, I recently dumped all my vimwiki markdown files into Obsidian and have really been enjoying that experience. Same local files with an upgraded visual experience and some neat linking features. It has basic vim bindings, unlike roam and others, and that makes all the difference. I just wish I could us…

I'm curious, did you consider org-roam (for instance on emacs-doom)?

I didn’t. Sounded like emacs has a large learning curve and that it wouldn’t have vim bindings? Perhaps That’s the wrong impression?

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by Maha-pudma »

andreypopp wrote: post #19

Also take a look at https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim which I found to be much simpler and easier to use.

What's the difference? When I was looking at using a wiki Vim I couldn't really see the difference between the two, why use one over the other.

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by bachmeier »

hawski wrote: post #33
bachmeier wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zim has its good points, but the biggest problem I have with it is the inability to wrap lines shorter than the full monitor width. On a 13" laptop, it's usable; on a widescreen desktop monitor it just doesn't work. Other wikis like tiddlywiki, pmwiki, and dokuwiki are able to avoid this.

Sorry if I misunderstood, but does changing the window size solves the problem? I never maximize it, so I was not aware.

I could shrink the window, but that's definitely not an optimal solution. It also means that I lose much of my screen width. That creates its own problems.

Here's a bug someone filed that hasn't even so much as gotten a response after nearly eight months:

https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/issues/...

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by jbp »

udfalkso wrote: post #42
camillovisini wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious, did you consider org-roam (for instance on emacs-doom)?

I didn’t. Sounded like emacs has a large learning curve and that it wouldn’t have vim bindings? Perhaps That’s the wrong impression?

Try Spacemacs, default vi bindings

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by akho »

stippenplan wrote: post #15

I adopted vim-wiki a little while ago and have really appreciated its functionality. I like that all files are plain text and located in a single folder. It is easy to reach from anywhere in vim, providing simple means to quickly make a note of todo/diary items during work. Also, I greatly enjoy that it allows for making local references in between your wiki files. A simple link towards another wiki- or diary-entry a…

Can you describe what you think vimwiki adds over a bunch of markdown files and `gf` for links?

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by madelyn »

akho wrote: post #46
stippenplan wrote: post #15

I adopted vim-wiki a little while ago and have really appreciated its functionality. I like that all files are plain text and located in a single folder. It is easy to reach from anywhere in vim, providing simple means to quickly make a note of todo/diary items during work. Also, I greatly enjoy that it allows for making local references in between your wiki files. A simple link towards another wiki- or diary-entry a…

Can you describe what you think vimwiki adds over a bunch of markdown files and `gf` for links?

For me it was just structure and ease of use. You can configure vim to make files on specific keypresses to link your diy wiki together, use gf like you mentioned to jump around, make your own auto folding and stuff...

Or you can be lazy and install a plugin that takes thirty seconds to get the hang of.

Actually writing and staying organized has been challenging due to the fact I don't focus well. Spending time recreating vimwiki is time not spent staying organized. Vimwiki has low friction so I use it.

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by colordrops »

I'm looking for something like vim-wiki or org-mode or the like that allows you to both edit and view the content in vim as well as the web, somehow syncing the two. Does this exist?

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by milin »

colordrops wrote: post #48

I'm looking for something like vim-wiki or org-mode or the like that allows you to both edit and view the content in vim as well as the web, somehow syncing the two. Does this exist?

I mainly use the https://github.com/euclio/vim-markdown-composer plugin for this. Just run :ComposerOpen in vim after installing the plugin, and it should work.

Re: Personal Wiki for Vim

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Post by stippenplan »

akho wrote: post #46
stippenplan wrote: post #15

I adopted vim-wiki a little while ago and have really appreciated its functionality. I like that all files are plain text and located in a single folder. It is easy to reach from anywhere in vim, providing simple means to quickly make a note of todo/diary items during work. Also, I greatly enjoy that it allows for making local references in between your wiki files. A simple link towards another wiki- or diary-entry a…

Can you describe what you think vimwiki adds over a bunch of markdown files and `gf` for links?

I like the ease of use and I greatly enjoy its diary feature. This provides simple keypresses to open an entry for today or yesterday, without requiring to think about the date. It provides me quick access to make notes and continue my way. Similarly, the creating of new notes, inserting likes, and navigating these links, are made relatively easy with commands provided by vimwiki.

I suppose that it is not that difficult to recreate the basic behaviour of vimwiki with custom commands and navigating with `gf` between your notes. However, for me vimwiki provided an easy way to get started in an environment where these commands were provided out of the box. Since then, I have gotten used to, and somewhat attached, to vimwiki and have kept using it.

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