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 elric » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

bluenose69 wrote: post #136

zettlr does not seem to be able to import markdown files, which is a problem for people like me who have lots of such files. Maybe there is a way around that, but I am not motivated to spend much time seeking it, since I find vimwiki to be sufficient for navigating through links in my files. (Also, vimwiki makes it easy to create links, with the strike of a key.) My scheme does not offer me a nice GUI, but I prefer t…

You can just dump the markdown files in whatever directory zettlr is using, and you're done. There's no magic required here, zettlr is just a markdown editor.

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

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Post by input_sh » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 6:07 PM UTC

logicuce wrote: post #209

zikani_03 wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ctrl + P followed by first few letters of a page you're jumping to.

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

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Post by dunham » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 6:10 PM UTC

gaebn wrote: post #212

dmytton wrote: post #29

Note-taking seems to be a hot topic lately. I used Apple Notes for a long time because it was very lightweight and minimalist, but recent releases of macOS have been very buggy, so I decided to review all the options. I wrote this up at https://davidmytton.blog/the-best-note-taking-apps-for-mac-m... which has become one of the most trafficked post on my blog in the last few months! The key for me is a) plain text fil…

It would be great to have a tool to backup all the data from Apple Notes to a collection of markdown files or SQLite db.

I haven't touched it in a while, but I wrote some code to extract data from apple notes and export to html, quiver, or bear formats. (bear is markdown-like, it looks like I targeted HTML for quiver.) It could be adapted to your needs if you know a little python:

    https://github.com/dunhamsteve/notesutils

It might need updating for features added in the last few years, but the cron job I have it running in is still working. (The html version dumps the drawings as svg, but png versions are available too.)

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

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Post by input_sh » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

maremp wrote: post #233

GhostVII wrote: post #231

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I wrote a tool for myself that will just open up your default editor and create a new markdown file for every note you want to take, saving them in a git repo that you can sync to some remote. Has the simplicity of a directory full of markdown files, but also provided a system to tag the different notes, search for a particular note to view or modify, and view a subset of them in an HTML document. All of that can be…

Do you have the tool somewhere to share? I was looking into writing a simple tool, preferably a bash script I can use cross-platform, which creates a new markdown file with named with today’s date and opens it with $EDITOR. This way I can also hook it to other tools, such as alfred pr albert.

Not as simple as a bash script, but Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) has this as a plugin.

Basically a button in the interface. You click on it and it creates a markdown file with today's date (example: YYYY-MM-DD). If one already exists, it just uses that one. You can also have a template that will be used when a new note is generated.

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

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Post by alltakendamned » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 6:27 PM UTC

garfieldnate wrote: post #224

What are the open source options for storing PDF annotations? These are just as important as free-form notes for me.

Have a look at Zotero ?

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

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Post by bubersson » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 6:39 PM UTC

I was using Zettlr for couple months, but some things were a bit clunky and it was missing better key-bindings, etc. Most of what I need is just "show me my folder with .md files and let me edit them nicely".

For now I ended up with Mark Text (https://marktext.app/), which is open source, cross platform, works nicely and the migration time was zero (folder with .md files ftw).

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

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Post by pivic » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 8:37 PM 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.

Soon we'll be able to define the graph to only display per folder; this is on the Obsidian roaemap.

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

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Post by bostonvaulter2 » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 9:51 PM UTC

_zg4q wrote: post #202

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #192

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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/

That's on my list to checkout. Will have to get to that soon.

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

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Post by alexktz » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 11:14 PM UTC

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.

Don't forget org-roam!!

I swear all these other folks trying tool x, y, z are only doing so because they haven't found org. It's a bit cryptic to get started but totally worth the effort.

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

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Post by AFewMistakesAgo » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 10:53 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.

The graph view in Obsidian would become particularly powerful if you could progressively filter brightness of items based on a search term. Or, for example, if you could make matching items brighter based on clicking / typing a tag name.