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Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by regularfry »

scribu wrote: post #11

The drawback to working directly on Markdown files is that it's hard to synchronize your notes from/to mobile. If I didn't care about sync, I would use org-roam or some Vim plugin, personally.

Syncthing ought to be an answer to this, given the right editor.

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

I think this trend of better knowledge tools is missing two very important pieces of human nature

1. If we have time to enter something into a knowledge base of any kind - then we have time to just jot it on a piece of paper.

2. If we dont have time (or think it is important at that moment) then what solves the problem for us is not a knowledge base, but search.

You see the thing about Google and Facebook etc, is that if they were collecting all this information about me, and it was treated like medical information about me it would be far more useful to me (and far less useful to Advertisers).

I want a web browser that remembers every single page I have visited (#) and then lets me search them. Then someone could write a spaced reminder thingy for me - spent more than 5 minutes on a web page did he - he will want to refresh that page in 2 weeks and then 4 months.

Yes, knowledge bases are excellent for clearly defined study efforts - like y'know, university, but for the rest of life, explicit note taking is a cost that we need some activation energy barrier for.

Put it this way, once upon a time I had a study book for a new programming language, and i took notes of interesting examples on a ring binder. But the last time I learnt a new language I just relied on Google finding me the relevant StackOverflow pages - my cost/benefit line had changed.

(And notes just got dumped into a text file.)

(#) Ok maybe not those pages

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by douglaswlance »

There is nothing that compares to using your preferred text editor to write personal knowledge documents like this. I swapped over to [Foam](https://foambubble.github.io/foam/) in VSCode recently when it was released, and it's like a breath of fresh air. I can use my keyboard shortcuts, extensions, and snippets. Nothing else can compare.

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by scribu »

wenc wrote: post #13

Folks who are familiar with Zettelkasten: Would it be correct to say that most of these tools are identical to Wiki software with one exception: the ability to see "what linked to this"?

It's not that. Wikipedia, for example, has a separate "pages that link to this" view.

What makes Roam Research different is "block addressing", i.e. you can get a reference to a single paragraph and use it in other docs (either referencing it or embedding it).

(and of course a nice UX for editing)

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