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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
Zim – A Desktop Wiki
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Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
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I'm the GitJournal author. I'd be open to adding the zim wiki syntax support, assuming I can have at least one designated person who uses Zim, and can test things out and report issues. GitJournal now has basic support for OrgMode, and the code is now in a state where it doesn't necessarily assume Markdown. How about you file an issue on GitHub? [0]. Ideally, if you could get some other people to vote on it, I'll be…
I'd be happy to help. I do use Zim on a daily basis and would love for GitJournal to support it natively.
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#163For 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 sy…
I'm the GitJournal author. I'd be open to adding the zim wiki syntax support, assuming I can have at least one designated person who uses Zim, and can test things out and report issues. GitJournal now has basic support for OrgMode, and the code is now in a state where it doesn't necessarily assume Markdown. How about you file an issue on GitHub? [0]. Ideally, if you could get some other people to vote on it, I'll be…
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
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#165Can 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?
Logseq has a bit of a learning curve (it's simple but confusing) but after initial shock it has everything.
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#166I've been using Zim for at least 10 years for notes, todo's, etc. Recently I updated my setup to use syncthing for syncing between my desktop, laptop, and my Android phone. On my phone I use Markor, an open source app that supports the Zim markup format (along with Markdown and some others). I've been pretty happy with this setup.
Wow, I left Zim for a Markdown based setup because I wanted to have an Android client. Settled on Markor, and I never knew it actually supported the Zim syntax. I'll be converting back asap!
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#167It 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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Logseq is cool. Do give Zim a try if you can, it’s been around for a while and is one of the more thoughtfully designed OSS GUI applications. Python and GTK impose limitations on the flexibility of extensions in general but it’s pretty fast and easy to extend otherwise. In terms of WYSIWYG I still don’t see anything much better on Linux. The main reason I don’t use it today is my mobile and tablet experience is much…
Logseq is also oss, obsidian I believe opening is planned but dunno much about the status, don’t keep up with it. Why wouldn’t you bother to try it? When I was doing my oscp I had to take mad amounts of notes, I tried zim, cheeytree, a few others I forget and obsidian was clearly the best, electron notwithstanding (and it was religious to me also, but really it has improved quite a lot since we formed our views about…
[1]: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515
Re: Zim – A Desktop Wiki
#169I was using TiddlyWiki, but I stopped about two years ago. I use OneNote for everything because I am primarily Windows based, but I do have an iMac and Linux machines too. I may give this a try. I still go back to pen and paper in bound books a lot, but for listing and sharing this looks good.
I used OneNote in school and really liked it but no native Linux support is a deal breaker. The web client is far too slow and frustrating to use on a daily basis.
Do you know of any other app that is even close? I had Scrivener on my Mac for writing, but it didn't work well for project management/note taking.
Markdown solutions are there, but nothing as cohesive as OneNote as far as I have found.