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Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by bachmeier »

Tomte wrote: post #44
Naac wrote: post #31

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. [0] https://tiddlywiki.com/

I never get past the saving problem. Last time (a few weeks ago) I tried rclone with WebDAV. I do what the instructions say, I get a local web site where I can open the empty.hmtl, I do the basic setup, write a tiddler, it says "Saved" and the empty.html is still pristine and never gets written. The times before that I tried several other ways documented on their web site, but failed with all of them. git? Only GitHu…

I wrote this[1] because I wanted something that didn't require any setup and I didn't want all kinds of features getting in my way. Just run the server and have it save the wiki to my hard drive. I guess you do have to install a D compiler in order to compile it, which might be classified as setup.

https://github.com/bachmeil/tiddlyd

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by mxuribe »

I used to love zim! I used it for a few years, but when i started travelling for work, it became tough to keep up with notes since i really needed a mobile client. Nowadays, it feels like 50% of my notes are captured while on the go, so a mobile client is now by far absolutely required for my workflow. I still give zim team lots of love, but just doesn't fill my needs as it used to.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by Tomte »

bachmeier wrote: post #51
Tomte wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never get past the saving problem. Last time (a few weeks ago) I tried rclone with WebDAV. I do what the instructions say, I get a local web site where I can open the empty.hmtl, I do the basic setup, write a tiddler, it says "Saved" and the empty.html is still pristine and never gets written. The times before that I tried several other ways documented on their web site, but failed with all of them. git? Only GitHu…

I wrote this[1] because I wanted something that didn't require any setup and I didn't want all kinds of features getting in my way. Just run the server and have it save the wiki to my hard drive. I guess you do have to install a D compiler in order to compile it, which might be classified as setup. https://github.com/bachmeil/tiddlyd

Bookmarked! I won't try it soon, but I will. Compiling a D program doesn't seem to be difficult.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

#54

Post by arichard123 »

Looks good. I've been using VimWiki and really make the most of it's ability to link to local files and directories with file:// . This makes for a superb way of keeping on top of various admin tasks, as I just write a checklist, and link directly to the local file or remote dir and I'm away. I would like it even more if I could link to specific emails with email:// . There was a thunderbird plugin, called thunderlink, where I did get this working, but then thunderbird stopped finding the emails, so I lost faith in it.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by ron9 »

Not long ago, I ran through a bunch of wiki programs and eventually landed on Zim as my comfort zone. It's very light, looks pretty good, and just works! The syntax is a bit weird, and as someone mentioned, it doesn't handle code very well. Still really great and an easy recommend, though.

https://ronitray.xyz/personal-wiki/

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by skinkestek »

Good memories from Zim.

I used OneNote 2016 after Zim in a period where I was stuck on Windows anyway but modern OneNote broke so much that I don't use OneNote anyway even if it is now cross platform.

The last year I have used Joplin which is awesome.

Lately though I have used Logseq for no other reason than that it feels even more awesome.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by prima-facie »

For me the killer feature of Zim is the native integration with Git. It's super easy to write and commit, write some more, commit again. You don't even have to leave the editor interface.

I've coupled this with git pre-commit and post-commit hooks which basically ensure that the changes are always pushed to GitHub.

I've found a similar application for Android called GitJournal. Unfortunately it doesn't do the wiki syntax which Zim recognizes. Only markdown and plain text. So I have a separate repo for my mobile notes. They're usually much shorter anyway, the type of notes you'd put on a sticky.

Hopefully one of these tools will learn the format of the other in the future. That would allow us to use both of them on the same repo.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

#60

Post by roomey »

I have used zim for notes for well over 10 years now, maybe 15.

It has made the all the difference in my career.

To any new person I know in my career I try to hammer home take notes, all the time take notes. I always wondered if some day I could write a book just from it

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