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Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by martinlaz » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 5:51 PM UTC

Zim – A Desktop Wiki
zim-wiki.org

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Post by meristohm » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 5:56 PM UTC

I really like Zim for journaling and transcribing RPG texts for easier reference.

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Post by themodelplumber » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

Amazing little app. I'm also very thankful to Zim for the fact that I still have the easily-searchable text files from my years of Zim use over a decade ago. It made it really easy to recover things that I wrote back then, because they were never really tucked away inside of a database somewhere.

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Post by account-5 » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 6:09 PM UTC

This is what I use for all my notes, and my tasks, and my schedule.

Amazing application. Comparable and better than everything I've seen on hacker news over the years.

My only complaint is no mobile client, though markor can generate a Zim-Wiki file.

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Post by c-st » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

Back when I was searching for a good note-taking system, each and everyone of them had one feature that I wanted that was missing. Zim Wiki was the first system I decided to stick with, and after 4+ years I never gravely missed anything. However, if you don't like organizing your stuff hierarchically, your experience might differ. Also, I kinda dig the desktop-centric approach. It feels more like a real tool than just some kind of "app".

Because it's written in python it is comparatively easy to extend and through its integrated web server you can serve up your notes with a custom design in no time.

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Post by csdvrx » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

I wish it would eventually move to Markdown in a large version change, to open the door to direct-to-MD publishing

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Post by Steltek » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 6:12 PM UTC

account-5 wrote: post #4

This is what I use for all my notes, and my tasks, and my schedule. Amazing application. Comparable and better than everything I've seen on hacker news over the years. My only complaint is no mobile client, though markor can generate a Zim-Wiki file.

How do you sync between devices? Dropbox or Syncthing?

I find myself favoring self-hosted webapps over local running apps. It eliminates the "no client for X platform" problem while also providing syncing across devices.

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Post by c-st » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 6:12 PM UTC

account-5 wrote: post #4

This is what I use for all my notes, and my tasks, and my schedule. Amazing application. Comparable and better than everything I've seen on hacker news over the years. My only complaint is no mobile client, though markor can generate a Zim-Wiki file.

Thanks for mentioning markor, I was searching for something similar! How do you sync your notebook between your phone and your computer, if you don't mind me asking?

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Post by hkt » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 6:13 PM UTC

Fantastic piece of software. I wish there was an android version so I could sync between my desktop and phone, but it is still brilliant.

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Post by c-st » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 6:15 PM UTC

csdvrx wrote: post #6

I wish it would eventually move to Markdown in a large version change, to open the door to direct-to-MD publishing

Do you have by chance an idea how the rich-content plugins might work with markdown?

Tables could just be HTML, but stuff like Gnuplot diagrams or GraphViz graphs need to store their input data aswell as the actual rendered image.