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Is this anything like "org mode" for Vim? I am not an org mode user, but I've heard people gush over it.
Org-mode: "Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system." via https://orgmode.org/
See also: https://orgmode.org/features.html
With all the posts on HN about paid personal knowledge bases like Roam I'm excited to see a free and open one leveraging my favorite editor.
Check out org-roam. It does have the emacs string attached but I've been using doom emacs with it (for vim keybindings) and the learning curve is 100% worth it. 3 weeks in and I haven't looked back here.
It's such a nice piece of code, and the author and community are fantastic. Asking for help is encouraged, as is sharing your modifications to the standard workflow.
It's also actively developed, and as such new features are frequently popping up.
Also, I greatly enjoy that it allows for making local references in between your wiki files. A simple link towards another wiki- or diary-entry allows you to jump to that note. It is not only nice for navigation, but also to explore connections between your thoughts. To understand those connections better, I create a simple script (vimwikigraph [0]) to draw these connections using the DOT language [1].
In that way it is similar to Roam [2] I think, although I have not used it myself.
[0] https://github.com/maxvdkolk/vimwikigraph
I want to put in a good word for zim-wiki here. Its a shame the Windows port seems to be on indefinite hiatus for now. Its by far the easiest GUI-based wiki to deal with, easily handles just dropping in files into a hierarchy and simply working with them after a refresh. Sorry but being able to use a mouse to navigate a wiki beats out a keyboard-based wiki any time. https://zim-wiki.org/
Is this anything like "org mode" for Vim? I am not an org mode user, but I've heard people gush over it.
Things I've liked:
* Now supports Markdown, including for internal linking instead of just the Vimwiki markup
* I'd use just straight Vim, but being able to select a phrase, and quickly make a page to that and link them is nice.
* The HTML and link handling is nice, and it will auto hide the long URLs unless you're actively on them
* Outlines, outlines, outlines. I use them for everything, and they're handled well
* I'll even throw in the occational table, and the auto formatting also works for tables.
* At the end of the day, everything is Markdown text files.
With all the posts on HN about paid personal knowledge bases like Roam I'm excited to see a free and open one leveraging my favorite editor.
Check out org-roam. It does have the emacs string attached but I've been using doom emacs with it (for vim keybindings) and the learning curve is 100% worth it. 3 weeks in and I haven't looked back here.