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Re: Ask HN: Notion or TiddlyWiki for free a * personal * wiki?

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Post by NerDProgrammer » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 10:10 AM UTC

Maha-pudma wrote: post #8

Zim Wiki[1] is amazing as a personal wiki. Loads of good official plugins and unofficial. Everything stored as text and organised in folders. Supports code highlighting, pasting images, tasks, journal, links (internal and external), back links, version control, etc. Just an all round brilliant piece of software. 1: https://zim-wiki.org/

Definately like zim, it's amazing and I can use it with vim also. Only con that stopped me for using it is that it doesn't have cross platform support, as I would also like to keep my wiki accessible on my android device. Thank you so much for the suggestion ! :)

Re: Ask HN: Notion or TiddlyWiki for free a * personal * wiki?

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Post by NerDProgrammer » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 10:12 AM UTC

kixiQu wrote: post #9

If you want to self host, use a Tiddlywiki (the Node server). I advise starting by grabbing someone else's plugins. My setup is here: https://lesser.occult.institute/an-opinionated-approach-to-t... If you like the convenience of not self hosting, Notion is good! That said, you probably want your wiki and zettelkasten to be the same thing.

Thank you so much for sharing your configuration!

Re: Ask HN: Notion or TiddlyWiki for free a * personal * wiki?

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Post by NerDProgrammer » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 10:17 AM UTC

buckfilfu wrote: post #6

In the same boat myself. Been using Notion for a decent bit now. I like it for a great many things, but wiki-style knowledge management just isn't one of them. TW, on the other hand, excels at this. You're right on all accounts. Notion is a slicker experience right out of the box. TW takes some fiddling to set it up in a way that you really enjoy using. And, it still has pain points. The editing experience is not my…

Yeah, as a programmer TW makes much more sense to me as I am not locked in by what I get, I can add additional functionality as and when I require.

There's also some things about notion that are starting to bother me, like the startup times of the application are insane, even if i want to just save a quick link, I cannot add tags to it. The out of customisability and freedom are great and definately appreciate what they have done to make it so much simpler to use for just about anyone, but sometimes the lock in just annoys a bit too.

Thank you so much for the Krytal theme!!!