oh my god this looks awesome... i had been using boostnotes, but this looks lightyears ahead.
Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base
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Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base
#12Previous discussion (but worth discussing again): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18840990
I think this is more in reference to yesterday’s discussion about Obsidian...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598
There have been a few knowledge base/markdown discussions lately.
Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base
#13I find that an ability to search the knowledgebase exceeds the value of organizing according to a hierarchy. I can see some value in linking/backlinking à la an encyclopedic "See also" reference for discovering similar information that doesn't share keywords. Are there other disadvantages to an "all search" solution I'm overlooking?
The disadvantage of an "all search" solution is that it presumes that you know what you are looking for. Some of the greatest value I get from my notes happens when I'm serendipitously browsing an old hierarchy, remembering connections I made before.
Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base
#14I find that an ability to search the knowledgebase exceeds the value of organizing according to a hierarchy. I can see some value in linking/backlinking à la an encyclopedic "See also" reference for discovering similar information that doesn't share keywords. Are there other disadvantages to an "all search" solution I'm overlooking?
When all you have is search, you may run into the difficulty of actively organizing and structuring notes and clippings into a hierarchy, clusters, or mind map. Also the search support varies from "exact match" to "fuzzy match" to "synonym search".
For example, Evernote supports Notebooks but they only create one level of hierarchy. Often the use of "tags" is then recommended to label notes with context, hierarchy, and categories.
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#15I find that an ability to search the knowledgebase exceeds the value of organizing according to a hierarchy. I can see some value in linking/backlinking à la an encyclopedic "See also" reference for discovering similar information that doesn't share keywords. Are there other disadvantages to an "all search" solution I'm overlooking?
The disadvantage of an "all search" solution is that it presumes that you know what you are looking for. Some of the greatest value I get from my notes happens when I'm serendipitously browsing an old hierarchy, remembering connections I made before.
All search plus some form of spaced memorization scheme for pages or blocks within pages would be nice, I wouldn't have to actively structure my notes that way. I hate structure, I'm always refactoring, so I prefer just saving things in one big folder with labels if I can. I wish I didn't even have to use folders in my file system!
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#16I have installed trillium twice before, when trying to find a better alternative to a bunch of google docs, but didn't end up using it. The reason is that you cannot readily share an editable copy of a document with a link, which ends up happening with half the documents I write in Google docs. If that was an option, I think it'd be preferable to Google docs in every way (for me).
Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base
#17I have installed trillium twice before, when trying to find a better alternative to a bunch of google docs, but didn't end up using it. The reason is that you cannot readily share an editable copy of a document with a link, which ends up happening with half the documents I write in Google docs. If that was an option, I think it'd be preferable to Google docs in every way (for me).
Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base
#18I've been singing the praises of this app every chance I get.. it's really pretty much perfect.
* Free (beer/speech)
* Self-hostable, including the sync server, which doubles as a web-accessible version of the app (++mobile access!)
* Extensible (want UI elements that do things with your notes? Easy. Want to render graphs based on metadata you've entered? No problem. Your own metadata and tagging scheme? All built in.)
* Encryptable (built in encrypted notes function)
* Syntax highlighting for most languages you probably care about
* Exportable, no proprietary formats
* Notes can be written in markdown
* Truly cross-platform (Mac/Linux/Windows/Web)
The tiniest of gripes can be directed at things like requiring you to use a key combo to insert a link (rather than letting me, say, use some markdown and autocompleting it), but that's minor. This blows the Evernotes and the NValts and quite possibly even OrgMode out of the water.
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Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base
#20I have installed trillium twice before, when trying to find a better alternative to a bunch of google docs, but didn't end up using it. The reason is that you cannot readily share an editable copy of a document with a link, which ends up happening with half the documents I write in Google docs. If that was an option, I think it'd be preferable to Google docs in every way (for me).
Nice idea, maybe make a feature request.