I made a small ruby gem to convert (most) of vimwiki markdown format files into html (using GitHub's markdown conversions). May be of use to some of you reading this.
Personal Wiki for Vim
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Re: Personal Wiki for Vim
#52Came back to vimwiki after using it for years previously: Things I've liked: * Now supports Markdown, including for internal linking instead of just the Vimwiki markup * I'd use just straight Vim, but being able to select a phrase, and quickly make a page to that and link them is nice. * The HTML and link handling is nice, and it will auto hide the long URLs unless you're actively on them * Outlines, outlines, outlin…
I've been using Vim as my main editor on BSD, Linux and Windows for > 20 years. I also use Vim extensions in the IDEs I use (Visual Studio, VS Code, PyCharm).
One of the things I love about PyCharm when dealing with Markdown is that you get a nice preview rendering side-by-side with the raw Markdown. Very useful. I'm not sure if VS or VS Code have something similar. At least VS Code, if it's possible, it's not enabled by default. Might be possible with an extension.
Re: Personal Wiki for Vim
#53If they'd couple this to Git, it could be even more useful (e.g. you'd have backups, syncing between devices, and perhaps even multi-user access).
Re: Personal Wiki for Vim
#54I 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?
gf?
Re: Personal Wiki for Vim
#55I love vim wiki, but have never been able to use it. Or any wiki for that matter.
I can't seem to find the right mind frame to keep feeding the wiki.
I do it for a while, and than I just stop, since I am not able to make a good workflow.
I also haven't been able to find a solution that would easily be publishable, with the right format for me to search over it.
(Another meta problem is that every time I try to consistently use a wiki it I seem to fall in the types of thoughts that the previous paragraphs show, and I simply get discouraged and drop the project)
Re: Personal Wiki for Vim
#56I 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/
I used WikidPad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikidPad) for a while and quite liked. It looks somewhat similar to zim-wiki. Unfortunately it does not look like it is under active development.
Whats good about: 1) cross platform 2) entries are plain text files 3) scriptable/extendable with python
Re: Personal Wiki for Vim
#57Came back to vimwiki after using it for years previously: Things I've liked: * Now supports Markdown, including for internal linking instead of just the Vimwiki markup * I'd use just straight Vim, but being able to select a phrase, and quickly make a page to that and link them is nice. * The HTML and link handling is nice, and it will auto hide the long URLs unless you're actively on them * Outlines, outlines, outlin…
I've been using Vim as my main editor on BSD, Linux and Windows for > 20 years. I also use Vim extensions in the IDEs I use (Visual Studio, VS Code, PyCharm). One of the things I love about PyCharm when dealing with Markdown is that you get a nice preview rendering side-by-side with the raw Markdown. Very useful. I'm not sure if VS or VS Code have something similar. At least VS Code, if it's possible, it's not enable…
I use https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim with Neovim (should work with vim >=8 as well)
It gives you live preview in browser. It also scrolls automatically to the part your vim cursor is at.
Re: Personal Wiki for Vim
#58I 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.
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Re: Personal Wiki for Vim
#59If they'd couple this to Git, it could be even more useful (e.g. you'd have backups, syncing between devices, and perhaps even multi-user access).
There is nothing stopping you from doing exactly that, and I have.
All you do is go to the dir, do a git init, and then regularly you do an add and commit (and push).
Really simple due to the fact that all files are just plain text with markdown syntax.
Re: Personal Wiki for Vim
#60With wikis or note taking applications, I always find it hard to get into a habit of using them. I think this is largely because too much brain space is taken up with:
1. When should I write something here?
2. How should I organize it?
1. Write whenever you have an interesting idea, or you get that
feeling that something important is about to get evicted from
your brain cache.
2. Every note goes in YYYY-MM-DD.md on the day you make the note.
You can add #tags to entries to track your thinking or progress
on a particular topic over time.