Once again I'm going to recommend tiddlywiki[0].
It has the hackability of emacs but can run anywhere a browser can ( both online and offline ). And of course, an active community and ecosystem built around it.
Zim – A Desktop Wiki
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Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#32Fantastic piece of software. I wish there was an android version so I could sync between my desktop and phone, but it is still brilliant.
I second that... There are a lot of times when I want to make notes or find information that I want to add to my Wiki (hosted on my desktop) from my phone or just want to search for something and having an android app that lets me do that would be fantastic.
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#33Once again I'm going to recommend tiddlywiki[0]. It has the hackability of emacs but can run anywhere a browser can ( both online and offline ). And of course, an active community and ecosystem built around it. [0] https://tiddlywiki.com/
> It has the hackability of emacs but can run anywhere a browser can
Needing a browser is definitely not a positive. The website taking two seconds to load even when in cache while zim is absolutely instant even on potato PC neither.
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#34Fantastic piece of software. I wish there was an android version so I could sync between my desktop and phone, but it is still brilliant.
I “solve” this problem by storing my phone’s notes in IMAP, and dumping them periodically into my main notes.
That solves writing. I find it actually works because phone notes tend to be write only — little snippets of information that record something important and never get edited again once they are written, to be turned into a “real” note at a later date, once in a system that supports “real editing”.
For reading notes I dump everything onto a personal website.
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#35These are the features I'd like in a wiki / personal knowledge engine: - Not a service. This has to be durable and portable. - Backed primarily by git and plaintext files, not a database. Explorable and manageable on the filesystem. - Markdown - Hyperlinks to articles that show up red if the page doesn't exist (yet). If a page is renamed, all hyperlinks to it must automatically update. - Multiple tags / categories ca…
It only fits about half your criteria, but I'm liking the vscode extension FOAM. https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
it's basically a clone of Roam Resarch as a vscode extension that uses Markdown.
It's markdown, has a desktop app (vscode), since it's just markdown you can put it all in git with easy diffs, vscode allows you to search the entire project for words, it has tags. It even has a window to see your notes as a star map where you see the links between the different markdown files, but they also recently added tags to that starmap.
You also get to use other extensions compatible with markdown like render inline plantuml and stuff like that, which is what is the nicest about it being markdown.
If you're serious about making your own, I would consider contributing to FOAM's project instead.
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#36I wish it would eventually move to Markdown in a large version change, to open the door to direct-to-MD publishing
Check out https://obsidian.md/ if you haven't already.
Seconding Obsidian. I started using it recently (admittedly for TTRPG notes) and I really like it! I haven't done a lot of cross-linking but it seems to work really well!
Even better, it stores everything in plain Markdown files in a folder hierarchy, so you can easily back everything up and/or interact with them outside the app if need be.
Even EVEN better, they have mobile apps that are perfectly happy to let you use your own file-syncing mechanism if you want to (although they do offer a sync service of their own as well.) Once I got it set up, everything Just Worked.
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#37This looks like RedNotebook... is it some kind of clone?
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#38Fantastic piece of software. I wish there was an android version so I could sync between my desktop and phone, but it is still brilliant.
Markor supports Zim files, as of a few versions ago
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#39I ended up switching to FOAM (the vscode extension) for personal notes because it's markdown and has much better support for inline planuml and showing node connections as a graph, but I haven't actually bothered changing my work notes away from ZIM because once stuff is in it, it kinda just works. If you don't care about visualizing links between different pages, it does a great job at making hierarchical notes searchable. My biggest gripe was that inserting plantuml code was really clunky because it doesn't update live (you have to submit your changes before seeing the result) but it's still very functional.
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#40I've used Zim about 8 years ago, but lost interest after a month. If I remember correctly, there were no Windows builds for a time, just an instruction how to compile it. I've been looking at Logseq and Obsidian recently.
I use Zim on Windows. It just works.