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Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

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Post by dotancohen » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 10:24 PM UTC

_Anima_ wrote: post #130

dotancohen wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to love Zim, it was almost feature perfect in my opinion. But if you're using it to store notes with code, check first to see if the formatting feature can be disabled, because that changes the stored note text. I had to stop using Zim due to that, though it was years and years ago so maybe this has been resolved since. Other than that show-stopper, it was a great app and it had a great developer.

I think it's resolved as I don't have any issue with storing excerpts of scripts and code.

Terrific, thank you!

If you are interested, these are two of the bugs that I filed on the subject. I might triage them again sometime, but if you are interested in ensuring that your code hasn't been affected you might want to look at them:

"Do not parse input as wikicode" https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/585300

"Option to disable all autolinking" https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/585301

Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

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Post by pqs » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 8:56 AM UTC

JabavuAdams wrote: post #107

I currently use Evernote, but am feeling the limitations. It's just become slow. E.g. time between opening app on phone to being able to take a note > 10s. I've grudgingly switched to just using flat lists in my phone's pre-installed text only note taking app.

Lucky you! It takes much longer for me!

But it is improving. In December, it took minutes. Since last update it takes seconds. ;-)

I just e-mail the notes to Evernote. That's what I do now.

Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

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Post by pqs » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 9:03 AM UTC

dynamohk wrote: post #84

Why not use something like notion or Evernote and be done with it.

I use Evernote. I have 18k notes and growing. I really want to like these markdown apps (a long time ago I used org-mode) but at the end of the day, there is always something missing that Evernote has:

In Evernote,

- sharing folders with other people is easy.

- I can easily publish notes to send to other people that don't use the app.

- I can forward e-mails to my note-taking system.

- I can use IFTTT to automatically import stuff.

- I can manage tasks (since the very nice new Tasks feature).

- I can easily put files in the notes, just drag and drop.

Yes, it is slow, but it is getting faster (progress is noticeable) and it works well, despite all the problems.

The only thing I would really like to have that Evernote is missing is backlinks and an interface to make linking easier, such as the Ctrl-K feature in Google Docs, which allows searching the document titles to find the one you want to link to.

By the way, in his last blog post, the CEO said that their revenue is increasing, so I guess people are voting with their wallets.

https://evernote.com/blog/ceo-update-january-2022/