Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by kuzimoto » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 12:46 AM UTC

zikani_03 wrote: post #191

lioeters wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 bec…

Sounds like your writing style fits with how TiddlyWiki[0] works. I just started using it, but like it so far. Has a plug-in for editing in Markdown as well.

[0] https://tiddlywiki.com/

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

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Post by _zg4q » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 12:49 AM UTC

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #192

kolias wrote: post #72

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> 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?

I'm not the poster you're asking, but I've been using Syncthing [0] for anything I need to share with my phone (or any other device for that matter). Very simple and fast to get using.

[0] https://syncthing.net/

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

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Post by dxdm » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 12:59 AM UTC

gdevenyi wrote: post #200

What's with all the weird communist references?

They're in the eye of the beholder.

I'm assuming you're talking about the name of the project? To me, Zettel is a German word, meaning a slip of paper useful for taking notes.

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

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Post by hysan » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 1:02 AM UTC

heldergg wrote: post #184

hysan wrote: post #133

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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/

That is awesome! Glad to see that this was finally addressed. That still leaves the macOS issues which I'll keep my fingers crossed for.

(I do realize that I'm an odd niche use case where I use all 3 platforms regularly (Linux, Apple, Windows) and it why it's been difficult to find a suitable replacement.)

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

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Post by lioeters » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 1:35 AM UTC

zikani_03 wrote: post #191

lioeters wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 bec…

Nice! I could actually use something like this, for a subset of notes, or nested (and disorganized) folders of files, books, etc. Thanks for sharing.

https://github.com/zikani03/groupby

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

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Post by badassiel » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 2:37 AM UTC

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…

Indirectly related - you can try https://web.hypothes.is. You can annotate web pages (public, private, group) and have page notes.

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

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Post by gregwebs » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 3:09 AM UTC

estacado wrote: post #195

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/

I preferred InkDrop on my laptop, but I had to switch back to SimpleNote because SimpleNote does both sync and mobile extremely well. Doing mobile well just requires it to never take time to load. InkDrop would usually have to refresh its contents when switching to it.

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

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Post by odilontalk » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 3:17 AM UTC

I'm using Inkdrop [1] and works really great for me. Knowledge + task management without forcing you any workflow.

[1]: https://www.inkdrop.app/

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

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Post by logicuce » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 3:22 AM UTC

zikani_03 wrote: post #191

lioeters wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 bec…

This is exactly me!

I think the something missing in Notion is keyboard shortcuts and overall feeling that it does not feel fast enough. For example navigating to a page and then jumping between pages requires more steps than I am comfortable.

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

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Post by unsungNovelty » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 3:54 AM UTC

grok22 wrote: post #135

unsungNovelty wrote: post #39

If anybody is sad about Zettlr not having the graph view of like the one in Obsidian or RoamResearch, please be patient. A PR is already open for it. -> https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/pull/921 OpenSource powaaaaa! :)

Does anybody find that graph view (like in Obsidian) useful? I play around with it for a while, but I don't really find it useful for any particular thing. Also overtime that graph grows too big to be visually easy to see patterns etc.

Yes, I do. As a very visual person, I love the graph view. It helps me visualise what I can only have an idea about in my head. And more often than not you forget a note ever existed. So when you see the graph view, you see what exactly is connected with it and helps you remember it better.

> Also overtime that graph grows too big to be visually easy to see patterns etc.

That is kind of the point with Zettelkasten (the method on top of which Obsidian and RoamResearch is built up on.). You have a huge repo where you see connections you didn't before.