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Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by notdiaphone »

maximus-decimus wrote: post #39

I 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 sear…

I can't speak to plantuml support, but Zim was--guessing here--one of the first to visualize links. Look at the plugin "Link Map." Been using it long before the current crop of markdown knowledge gardens came about.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by zelphirkalt »

Does Zim support inter-document linking to arbitrary locations?

I feel like at some point I must have tried Zim, but for some reason I abandoned it. Perhaps it was the inter-document linking/referencing thing. Or it was its markup language having other limitations? I don't remember.

Nowadays I do all my note taking and knowledge storing using org-mode.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by sjellis »

ibnishak wrote: post #78

It is time to give a shout out to my favorite note taking app: Trilium https://github.com/zadam/trilium Pros: 1. Data is saved in SQlite. I am at 33k notes and it springs open instantaneously. 2. Notes can be arranged into arbitrarily deep tree. Single note can be placed into multiple places in the tree. (Think soft-links) 3. WYSIWYG support (CKEditor) 4. Tags, advanced scripting features 5. Other ususal wiki stuff l…

I use Joplin, which has a similar feature set but also mobile apps:

https://joplinapp.org/

It supports various types of file stores for syncing between devices. I've used OneDrive and WebDAV. The project has also recently launched a cloud service for people who want to sync between devices but don't want to set up a network file store.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by trilinearnz »

A very nice little mixed-media editor. Slightly more heavyweight in terms of file dependencies than I'm used to on Windows (but makes sense given cross-platform origins).

Strikes me as similar to the excellent (but unfortunately abandoned) NoteLiner.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by peterfield »

maximus-decimus wrote: post #35
echelon wrote: post #30

These 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…

THX. Came here to ask "great - I love Roam and it is the most used app of my whole toolbox after my browser. That's also the only one non FOSS"

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by SkipperCat »

I used to use this all the time and its a great app. But when I moved to Mac, it was not there for me. I recently started with https://obsidian.md/ and I'm pretty happy with it. Its all markdown and it converts from markdown to formatted text as you type. Plus, the price is right fore personal use (zero!)

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by rfreiberger »

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've been using Tiddlywiki for my technical notes. Before I was using Evernote and Notion, both would format my code blocks and it was just easier to use Tiddlywiki with a desktop app for saving.

But my concern with Tiddlywiki is extracting the data if needed, there was a time when my wiki had some file issues and lucky that I was able to recover without sorting the files manually.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by maineldc »

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 hear you on this problem and it took a while to find a solution I like. Ultimately, I went with https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop and file syncing tool of my choice. It seems to work well, but you can have issues if you simultaneously edit.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Post by auslegung »

vymague wrote: post #79

It's silly. But I want these features in my offline personal wiki: - sortable table like wikipedia's - sortable list and other list manipulation tools from dynalist/worflowy's - automatically adding titles when you copy links of articles/videos/etc. I'd like to think I'm not the only one who mostly uses lists and tables to organize information and notes. Quick googling says org-mode can do the first 2. I tried spacem…

I’ve been using Doom Emacs for over a year. Previously I was using nvim for over a year, then VSCode for a few years. Doom was reasonably easy for me to understand, use, and extend.
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