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?
Zim – A Desktop Wiki
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Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#142Is the Zim format used in this the same as the one used by Kiwix to store an offline copy of Wikipedia (and others)? https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-content-packages/
Zim Wiki uses plain text files with its own markup language.
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#143There 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. Nev…
I used it for years for writing a daily journal. I'd press a shortkey such as Alt+D and I'd get an entry for the day and write. Simple useful tool with an awesome author.
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#144There 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. Nev…
> Pasting code will be garbled or auto-create tags unless you use the source view plugin or paste verbatim.
I had used Zim extensively in the past, I absolutely love it. The dev is responsive and terrific and terrific as well. But I've lost quite a lot of code snippets due to the auto-formatting and auto-linking. If you are interested, these are two of the bugs that I filed on the subject:"Do not parse input as wikicode" https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/585300
"Option to disable all autolinking" https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/585301
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#148I think I saw an opensource tool like that before, but lost track of it.
EDIT: I'm trying out some of your links. Logseq seems cool, has a strange logic but has some graph visualization of nodes and plugins with direct mindmap support. Feel free to make suggestions anyway!
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#149Why worst? Anything you try, except for writing text, does not work the way you would expect and usually works in exactly the worst possible way. Good luck copy/pasting anything.
I really need to find a better note-taking that does not try to do a fancy "mind map".
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#150Can you help me out? You have a lot of great alternatives - does any of them allow to arrange notes in a tree-like manner, like a mind map? A graphical tree/mindmap that links to longer articles? I think I saw an opensource tool like that before, but lost track of it. EDIT: I'm trying out some of your links. Logseq seems cool, has a strange logic but has some graph visualization of nodes and plugins with direct mindm…
TreeSheets?