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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 arcticfox »

input_sh wrote: post #104
stevesimmons wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You have to do the sync via GitHub, which is in and of itself a vendor lock-in in my opinion. I really don't get why I can't just point to any Git repo for syncing purposes.

There's nothing requiring the use of GitHub, you can 100% use your own Git repo for syncing purposes. Definitely a big plus of Foam and similar approaches of assembling open primitives into a useful package =)

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

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Post by arcticfox »

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.

100% in the same boat. I have historically used notes products for hours and then quit; I am days into Foam and I love it more all the time.

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

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Post by pqdbr »

endymi0n wrote: post #96
esperent wrote: post #79

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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.

Same here. I've tried many different Markdown tools along the way. However, keeping everything in Sublime (files in Dropbox) is specially nice because I'm always one `cmd ~` away from having my notes, and one `CMD SHIFT F` from finding exactly what I need.

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

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Post by heldergg »

hysan wrote: post #133
prima-facie wrote: post #69

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 pu…

Really love Zim wiki and have been using it for over a decade. Sadly, the move to py3 and gtk3 broke it for non-linux platforms. macOS how has a huge wealth of [reported] bugs that break common keyboard shortcuts at the OS level and introduced a lot of performance problems. This isn't the fault of Zim as these are all bugs from gtk3 where it seems like the priority for non-linux bugs is 0. Meanwhile, Windows no longe…

There is a new installer for windows for the latest Zim version, it was announced last Tuesday, you can get it on the Zim wiki download page: https://zim-wiki.org/downloads/

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

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Post by andrei_says_ »

endymi0n wrote: post #96
esperent wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What do you do about images in this setup?

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

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Post by madballster »

jyounker wrote: post #177
jldugger wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So basically a personal Wiki for generation Z.

If you consider people born in 1927 (the inventor of the system) to be generation Z, then yes.

Hegel (b. 1770) is purported to have used a version of Zettelkasten, as described by Hegel's sister: "He approached his reading as follows: Everything that seemed remarkable to him he wrote on a separate sheet of paper, which he identified at the top by a general label under which the particular content had to be subsumed. In the center of the upper edge he then wrote in large letters—not infrequently using Fraktur letters—the keyword of the article. These pages he ordered alphabetically ... and thus could by means of this simple method use his excerpts at any moment. "
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