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Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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c-st wrote: post #8
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?

Haha, this isn't very hacker news but I bought a usb stuck with a usb-c port on one side and a usb3 port on the other. Copy and paste.

No third party apps, just my version of sneaker-net.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by account-5 »

Steltek wrote: post #7
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.

I replied to c-st. USB memory stick.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by dylan-m »

cercatrova wrote: post #12

Not to be confused with Zim [0], a zsh configuration framework that's generally faster than oh-my-zsh [1]. [0] https://github.com/zimfw/zimfw [1] https://ohmyz.sh/

Or Zim [0], the file format for giant offline-readable Wikipedia archives.

[0] https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/OpenZIM

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by geocrasher »

Been using it for nearly a decade and have turned many people on to it.

I wrote about it some years back on my ugly blog: https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/12/tech-tool-tidbit-zim...

[edit. It said I turned many people into it which assumes that there are people out there who are Zims. Space invaders notwitstanding.]

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by c-st »

account-5 wrote: post #11
c-st wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Haha, this isn't very hacker news but I bought a usb stuck with a usb-c port on one side and a usb3 port on the other. Copy and paste. No third party apps, just my version of sneaker-net.

Great! Whatever gets your job done.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by brocket »

There are a lot of fancier note taking tools but I keep going back to Zim. Been using it for years for private offline note-taking for work. I use quick notes and journal shortcuts many times a day to quickly jot down a followup note/idea/question in meetings. It's also my GTD system with tasks plugin. Love that it's just text files so I can manually edit them, version control, sync in private cloud service, etc. Never worry about losing my data.

There are a few quirks I've gotten used to over the years though:

- Pasting code will be garbled or auto-create tags unless you use the source view plugin or paste verbatim.

- Takes a little configuration out of the box to get just right, system dependencies, links opening in right browser, plugins, shortcuts, fonts. But once you get streamlined it just works.

- The syntax feels a little strange to me but I rarely need to edit raw files. I could also export to Markdown if I ever wanted to migrate.

My last tip, templates are awesome. I have ones for all kinds of things, like interviewing, 1-1s, and architecture design outline.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by quantumite »

geocrasher wrote: post #15

Been using it for nearly a decade and have turned many people on to it. I wrote about it some years back on my ugly blog: https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/12/tech-tool-tidbit-zim... [edit. It said I turned many people into it which assumes that there are people out there who are Zims. Space invaders notwitstanding.]

poof! you're a zim.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by eggy »

I was using TiddlyWiki, but I stopped about two years ago. I use OneNote for everything because I am primarily Windows based, but I do have an iMac and Linux machines too. I may give this a try. I still go back to pen and paper in bound books a lot, but for listing and sharing this looks good.
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