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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 zikani_03 »

lioeters wrote: post #158
esperent wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do think that the area of knowledge management is very interesting and worthy of discussion. When it comes to tooling though, I've tried out a couple and I don't find anything superior to a folder full of markdown files + your favorite text editor (I use VSCode, but I don't think that's especially important). Systems like Zettelkasten are interesting to read about, but again, everyone's brain is different and for m…

I'm in the same camp, all my notes are in Markdown files, organized as a tree of folders. Some folders are prefixed with YYYY or YYYY-MM, when needed. My text editor, also VS Code, has extensions for Markdown live preview, to-do lists, and other conveniences - everything I need to manage the "knowledge database". In the terminal, `find` and `grep` are perfect for searching notes. I have a few aliases defined for quic…

I also rely on Markdown files and typically write very short content in each file, especially to help with my memory. I tried Google Keep, Evernote and at some point pain-stakingly migrated all the notes I had to Notion, but they are missing "something" I don't know yet so I regressed back to markdown files in a directory.

I created a tool to automatically structure files into a directory tree based on file dates because of this: github.com/zikani03/groupby

It is really great to see more attention given to this space. That and personal relationship management tools (e.g. Monica)

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

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

kolias wrote: post #72
esperent wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do think that the area of knowledge management is very interesting and worthy of discussion. When it comes to tooling though, I've tried out a couple and I don't find anything superior to a folder full of markdown files + your favorite text editor (I use VSCode, but I don't think that's especially important). Systems like Zettelkasten are interesting to read about, but again, everyone's brain is different and for m…

> I do think that the area of knowledge management is very interesting and worthy of discussion. When it comes to tooling though, I've tried out a couple and I don't find anything superior to a folder full of markdown files + your favorite text editor (I use VSCode, but I don't think that's especially important). I'd say the most valuable thing these tools provide is a way to link notes. That's the part that was miss…

How do you sync them to your phone?

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

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

DerWOK wrote: post #50
sanchitnevgi wrote: post #12

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

Yes, I also looked into Obsidian. And I really liked it. But their license scheme would have forced me to buy a subscription to also use it in work environment. So I switched to Zettlr and never looked back. Would they have allowed the personal one-time bought license to use in professional working, I would have sticked.

I'm very happy with Obsidian's pricing. Basically if you're getting paid in relation to some of the notes that you take then you should be using the commercial version. Much better model than the advertising and data-vacuuming models that are the flavor of the day. I'm glad to pay for software that I use, that means the software can be sustainable and continue to exist.

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

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Post by ralls_ebfe »

darkstarsys wrote: post #97

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…

Regarding drawing: have you seen org-krita? https://github.com/lepisma/org-krita

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

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Post by estacado »

I've tried a lot of note-taking apps, I've settled on Simplenote. It's lightweight, syncs, and searchable. It's text-only. I find linking media and other stuff is just cumbersome, and takes a lot of effort to organize when all I want is a quick way to jot down notes. https://simplenote.com/

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

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Post by dheera »

m-p-3 wrote: post #169
esperent wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do think that the area of knowledge management is very interesting and worthy of discussion. When it comes to tooling though, I've tried out a couple and I don't find anything superior to a folder full of markdown files + your favorite text editor (I use VSCode, but I don't think that's especially important). Systems like Zettelkasten are interesting to read about, but again, everyone's brain is different and for m…

I do think that Markdown hits the sweet spot between complexity and ease of use for quickly writing notes. I do use an app called Joplin[1] because it can sync to some cloud services with End-to-End Encryption directly within the app, has a mobile app available for Android and iOS and because it includes some other features I find useful when I want to polish my notes and include some diagrams using MermaidJS[2]. [1]…

I usually just use straight up HTML.

and and the syntax of are a lot easier for me to remember than some weird funky *'s and |'s. is also plain obvious, compared to some weird []!@() BS that I can never remember.

Top it all off with a custom CSS file and I'm done.

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

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Post by httpsterio »

jtanderson wrote: post #86

I've been a heavy Standard Notes user for a couple years now, and the added function of Zettlr looks extremely appealing to me (images, linking, much nicer rendering, etc.). However, to really give this a test drive to see if it's a suitable replacement, I downloaded all my Standard Notes as plain text and tried importing them. This caused a ton of bugs/errors when trying to navigate and use the results. First, it co…

Zettlr uses virtual folders basically so that your physical organization might not reflect how it's organized in Zettlr. Also, Zettlr is for markdown so you basically have to rename your files as plaintext files are not supported.
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