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Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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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?

Syncthing

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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post #127

Is 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/

No, those have nothing to do with each other. It's just a name collision.

Zim Wiki uses plain text files with its own markup language.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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post #82
post #17

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. 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.

Hijacking this comment, I use Horst Schaeffer's MemPad[0] for this. Super lightweight, super simple, super fast. Also great for tracking freelance work with one file per client. Alas, Windows-only.

0. https://www.horstmuc.de/wmem.htm

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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post #17

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. 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

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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I just use a private WordPress instance with minimal theme. WordPress has fairly good Mobile admin app. Quite close to a cross platform solution. However, I wish iCloud notes had photo upload feature to make it true cross platform.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Is there a similar app to Zim that is properly native macOS? I like the concept and the features of Zim, but it's a bit unwieldy on the Mac. The UI doesn't look native, the shortcuts are a bit strange and it's slow. When I click on maximize window (as an example) it took 3 seconds.

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Can 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 mindmap support. Feel free to make suggestions anyway!

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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Zim, the worst software I use daily. This was a weird realization.

Why 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".

Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki

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post #148

Can 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…

> I think I saw an opensource tool like that before, but lost track of it.

TreeSheets?

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