I’ve been self hosting linkding[0] and it has archiving capabilities. Saves in html not markdown but that’s basically the same thing. It’s been very useful and then I back the folder up to R2 for free. I enjoy knowing that if I find something I want to remember it won’t go away. Plus it works great for recipe sites because I don’t have to deal with ads.
If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
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Re: If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
#22I love markdown and use it for all my notes, however it really needs a native way to underline. I have been converting some older books and lectures to markdown and underline is used all the time. If anyone has a good solution I'm all ears.
The solution are HTML tags like
Re: If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
#23100% agree. I've been using markdown for a few years after moving away from proprietary note taking apps. Although this has led to me developing my own short hand for many things in my notes. And have been looking at a way to integrate a to-do list with my notes with some Python scripts.
So while my notes may rely on some personal scripts to get there most value out of them, I strongly value that they are still plain text and I can always move them into a new workflow if I need to.
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#24The only drawback of Markdown is images.
GitHub-flavored Markdown is so popular because you can really easy inline them. You don't have to worry about storing them, linking them correctly, and you can even paste to the Markdown field.
There is no elegant solution like this in actual Markdown.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I understand the sentiment that you can't trust content on the web to be there forever The thing is, people say this, and I am sure for some amount of content it's true. However I eventually realised I have never had a single issue if required, in retrieving literally any piece of software or digital content after the fact from somewhere on the internet. It's pretty much why I care so little about what happens to m…
That’s only possible because some people are hoarders who save this data or software and put it out there..
> That’s only possible because some people are hoarders who save this data or software and put it out there..
Sure. And I appreciate it. Like I appreciate the internet archive etc.
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#26Just a note that the most common Markdown flavor (Commonmark) doesn't actually support frontmatter. The author is using presumably Obisidian-flavored Markdown (which is a mixture of Commonmark, GH-flavored Markdown, and Latex). For file-tagging, I would consider TMSU [0] instead of writing bespoke tools. (ideally we would just use xattrs, but the world isn't ready for that) [0]: https://tmsu.org/
I like Commonmark but I wish it would have been more opinionated. They chose to allow two ways to do everything[0].
Making * always be used for bold and _ always for italicizing is so much clearer, and some Markdown flavors (notably WhatsApp) do this. So you only have to do *haha* or _haha_, which also makes italic-bold more _*intuitive*_.
Similarly they should have gone with one style of headings, probably with #.
This frees up more visual clarity. Because you are no longer using *** for bold-italic, you can use that for lines, instead of both --- and ***.
This then further frees --- up to be used for tables.
Although I imagine there's a decent subset of people that uses the alternate style of doing headings === and the 'normal' way of doing lines ---, which would have killed adoption.
And good luck convincing people to adopt a new variant at this point. "Commonermark"? "Peasantmark"? "Rabblemark" actually sounds decent.
Edit: actually, having checked the discourse around it a bit more, Commonmark wasn't created as "one Markdown to rule them all", but rather as "Venn diagram markdown with the most overlap".
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#27100% agree. I've been using markdown for a few years after moving away from proprietary note taking apps. Although this has led to me developing my own short hand for many things in my notes. And have been looking at a way to integrate a to-do list with my notes with some Python scripts. So while my notes may rely on some personal scripts to get there most value out of them, I strongly value that they are still plain…
Maybe consider Quarto? Free and open source, integrates Python scripting directly in Markdown and/or able to call from separate scripts.
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#28My favorite is WikiCreole, with (subset of) HTML as a close second. MD is alright, but too restrictive as a general purpose format for knowledge bases and such.
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#29I love markdown and use it for all my notes, however it really needs a native way to underline. I have been converting some older books and lectures to markdown and underline is used all the time. If anyone has a good solution I'm all ears.
Markdown is plaintext so you decide what it means. I personally write *italic* and **bold**, so I can use _underline_. Most Markdown to HTML converters would make the last example into italic, but you can customize many of them. Commonmark doesn't even mention "bold", "italic", and "underline". It just says "emphasis" and "strong emphasis". You can style it however you want.
This kind of undercuts the advantage of a semi-universal format. Though I'd agree underscore wrappers are quite reasonable and natural.
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#30I'm not surprised this post opens with a link to /r/DataHoarder. Hot take ... I understand the sentiment that you can't trust content on the web to be there forever, but there is also the other side of the argument which is: compulsively saving data is a waste of time and it introduces a cognitive overhead that you'd be better off without.
> I understand the sentiment that you can't trust content on the web to be there forever The thing is, people say this, and I am sure for some amount of content it's true. However I eventually realised I have never had a single issue if required, in retrieving literally any piece of software or digital content after the fact from somewhere on the internet. It's pretty much why I care so little about what happens to m…
I have the opposite and sadly accelerating experience.
Information is removed or altered constantly and usually, I cannot find anything on the Internet Archive either. For whatever reason WayBackMachine, for my use cases, is nearly always blank.
But I look for semi-obscure publications and statements from (nation)states and organizations.