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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 eblanshey »

For the last half a year or so I've been using VNote: https://github.com/tamlok/vnote

I was really surprised when I discovered it, as I've been looking for the "perfect" note-taking system for a while and VNote was never mentioned. It checks all my boxes: in-place preview of markdown, is open source, automatically copies images to your notes directory, has ability to add file attachments, is customizable with different themes, is programmer-friendly (has VIM-mode), and it's native (no Electron!) And it looks great with the dark theme. It doesn't lock you in to its software as in the end, it's just markdown files and media files.

It doesn't have Zettelkasten support, but it does do tagging and its search capabilities are comprehensive (includes regex search.)

I am not affiliated with the project -- just a happy user :)

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

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Post by kirubakaran »

Please try my https://histre.com/ if you don't want to manually organize everything. Histre automatically creates a knowledge base out of your bookmarks, notes, highlights, and optionally, your web browsing history. It makes it trivially easy to collaborate and publish.

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

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Post by ralls_ebfe »

codr7 wrote: post #38

Two words, Org mode: https://orgmode.org/ Add Magit and you're good to go: https://github.com/magit/magit Emacs is a quirky beast, but these two packages alone make it worth the effort to learn.

Switched to emacs(spacemacs) from vim last year, because I wanted to know what the craze with org-mode is all about. Am using mu4e, elfeed, rcirc, magit, org-mode and started using org-roam this week. I still suck at elisp, but emacs with org-mode really is a blast. I love my agenda: whenever I get confused what I was about to do, it is only some keystrokes away. I feel insanely organized while forgetting everything all the time.

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

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Post by stevesimmons »

douglaswlance wrote: post #19

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.

In the last week, I've started using Foam too.

It hits the sweet spot for me:

- Plain Markdown files stored in git; exactly what I am used to for code.

- Editor is VisualStudioCode, which I always have open, and can configure however I like.

- No vendor lock-in.

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

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Post by dsissitka »

DerWOK wrote: post #53

Some admin removed the "version 1.7" from the post headline? Why that? The news is that the version 1.7 - after 4 month of work - was just released a few hours ago... ️

I imagine it's because the link points to Zettlr's home page and so the discussion ended up being about Zettlr in general rather than the 1.7 release.

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

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Post by rollinDyno »

douglaswlance wrote: post #19

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.

I’m hoping this will include inline text transclusion soon. I’m sure there are other solutions for viewing images too.

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

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Post by emptysongglass »

fastball wrote: post #35

Shameless plug: I've been building a similar tool for the past couple years, although it is not FOSS :( The major differentiator is that content is based around notecards rather than documents/files, and there are multiple ways to structure these cards. The most powerful way to organize things is with multi-parent nesting, where you put cards inside of other cards, and each card can have any number of parents. You ca…

I love the metaphor of a massively hyperlinked card. It reminds me a little of https://mochi.cards, which I've enjoyed spending time with.

But these things can only ever remain idle curiosities to me when they're closed source. We're talking about a knowledge graph that only really flexes itself with years of dedicated entry, roaming and combing through its interlinks for that electric flash of idea-sex.

Why should I commit to a company's knowledge box when I can't trust your team's bus factor? You're one human being, any number of calamities could befall you -- I have to assume Supernotes isn't wired to an open-source dead man's switch.

You're also an engine of capital beholden to its single truth: print more money at all costs. We've already seen apps like Roam jack up their price. Is there a ceiling you can guarantee me?

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

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Post by prima-facie »

I can recommend Zim wiki which is a GTK+ desktop app that works as a personal wiki / notebook. Has a WYSIWYG editor and can export to different formats, it can even render the wiki as html and serve it. Also supports plugins for extra things like tables and charts if you wish. You can have separate notebooks for each project like home/work/etc. You can commit to git from the UI, have git hooks set to automatically push to a remote on every commit. Not fancy but very functional and pleasant to use. https://zim-wiki.org/

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

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Post by douglaswlance »

deepersprout wrote: post #28
douglaswlance wrote: post #19

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.

How do you organize your notes? Do you have one big file for everything, one file for one note, one file for argument, or something else? Do you keep a date on your notes? Maybe you can share a bit about how you organize your written down knowledge?

I use a flat folder structure. All my markdown files are in a single folder.

I use metadata sections in the header of each document to organize and configure it.

The documents themselves are structured differently depending on their topic. My journal document is a long running single document with timestamps. Other documents are structured in paragraphs, others are simply bulleted lists. Of course, everything is linked by tags, which are the core organizational mechanism.

I've found that rigid organizational structures don't lead to better outcomes. It's best to let the structure develop naturally through tagging.

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