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

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Post by wadkar »

stevesimmons wrote: post #64
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.

Would you say it's an editor lock-in?

I can make pretty much the same argument for say, vim or emacs, and say that plain markdown + fugitive/magit hits the sweet spot.

I am just trying to understand where's the vendor lock-in thing coming into the picture here.

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

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

Keyframe wrote: post #92

So, is this like a Scrivener clone? Scrivener is awesome and one of the things I miss when I dumped MacOS altogether.

Scrivener is not Mac-only anymore! https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/download

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

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Post by stakkur »

My cross-platform, time-proof, open source 'personal knowledge management' system:

1. A folder of markdown and org files

2. Emacs, gEdit

3. A notebook

I get the urge to 'optimize' this sort of thing, but the results seem to be nothing more than visual presentation tweaks.

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

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Post by tifadg1 »

henrikeh wrote: post #78
tifadg1 wrote: post #30

Could someone enlighten me what is the biggest advantage or this and similar tools over libreoffice writer? I've been using it extensively for years for technical documentation, have hundreds of bitrot-free documents, and am extensively using: * tables (2 or 3 columns depending on type, often using sort by column 1 or column 1+2 to keep relevant information grouped); * preset formatting for different styles (snippets…

How do you generate flashcards from LibreOffice and what do you mean with “no modification”?

headless export to html (on a dir), then parse each file to split per heading (1 heading 1 card). Back side contains the whole heading content, front side contains rule based text to guide what the question is looking for, so may contain

* bold words, indicating you should recall info within;

* command explanations from tables, indicating you must think of the correct command;

* other text prepended a specific word of style;

it's really up to you to make rules. Once a split is done, dump the parsed html into txt and load from anki and you get 1 anki file per directory, with cards split by heading, but grouped by file name, i.e. https://imgur.com/a/NgBzI15

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

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Post by endymi0n »

esperent wrote: post #79
kiba wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Systems like Zettelkasten are interesting to read about, but again, everyone's brain is different and for me a bunch of folder categories and one misc/daily folder is just as good. I find that folders/tags inevitably just run into the issue of notes not fitting into any particular schema. So often time I just use the search function, or use a particular note that consist mostly of only organized links. This way I can…

The schemas are not that important though, I just use search 90% of the time anyway.

Since realizing this about 5 years ago, I‘ve actually started optimizing for it. Whenever I hit cmd+s, I make sure to enter a search mindset and make the file name as keyword heavy and stemming friendly as possible. For smaller notes, I just have Sublime Text open with iCloud sync and operate freely with hundreds of tabs. Since then, any thought has never been more than a Spotlight search or a „find in files“ away.

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

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Post by darkstarsys »

Not a popular opinion I'm sure, but I'm all-in on OneNote. Works everywhere (at least basically) and it is just so rich. Full pen support for drawing (vital for me), tables, equations (sort of), multiple text blocks on a page (also key!), internal & external links, fast search (as of last year). Search is good enough that I rarely use tags anymore.

Yes, it's totally vendor locked in and I do hate that. And no syntax highlighting for code is annoying. Lack of markdown is a pain. And it's bug-ridden and closed source.

But I've been using it for my work daily journal and knowledge capture for a few years now, and it's so fluid and easy to jot down or scribble a quick note and find it later that it's hard for me to imagine going back to a basic Markdown editor. It's the closest thing I've found to a searchable paper lab notebook.

And btw I'm a hardcore Emacs user for the last 40 years. Org mode is great, but for me, OneNote kills it in expressiveness and fluidity of idea capture and recall.

If someone makes a Markdown editor that supports pen/tablet ink drawing and multiple text blocks on a page, I'd be interested.

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

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Post by cborenstein »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #18

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 t…

> 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.

Great point. I often see people sharing strategies for organizing notes but I rarely see people discussing how they get stuff down in the first place. And there's a lot of improvement we can make here.

I wanted to add more modularity to my jot-downs so that it would be easier to organize them later, one small step at a time. I found that I can get this modularity by writing my notes as if I'm texting myself.

(Working on a tool [1] that has this sms-style interface with keyboard shortcuts for purging my notes and organizing. would love your feedback).

[1] https://bytebase.io

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

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Post by blakeburch »

greenie_beans wrote: post #85

I read some blog post within the past year are so, written by some young engineer for shopify or spotify. They detailed the way they built their zettelkasten. It was well-written and more detailed than most blog posts in that genre. I can’t find it on HN or Google. Anybody know what I’m talking about?

Was it this one? https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-learni...

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

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Post by inakarmacoma »

sanchitnevgi wrote: post #12

I've been using Obsidian ( https://obsidian.md/ ) for the past few weeks and it has been really great.

By the creator of DynaList as well... Another worthy competitor that outshines workflowy in my opinion.
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