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Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by type0 »

esperent wrote: post #79
kiba wrote: post #54

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Systems like Zettelkasten are interesting to read about, but again, everyone's brain is different and for me a bunch of folder categories and one misc/daily folder is just as good. I find that folders/tags inevitably just run into the issue of notes not fitting into any particular schema. So often time I just use the search function, or use a particular note that consist mostly of only organized links. This way I can…

The schemas are not that important though, I just use search 90% of the time anyway.

But tags are very valuable when you can filter them, sometimes if you don't remember what to search for but know what it was tagged as you can find it fast. This only is an issue when you have a lot of notes otherwise I agree that search can be almost as good.

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by ralls_ebfe »

DonaldPShimoda wrote: post #89
ralls_ebfe wrote: post #63

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Switched to emacs(spacemacs) from vim last year, because I wanted to know what the craze with org-mode is all about. Am using mu4e, elfeed, rcirc, magit, org-mode and started using org-roam this week. I still suck at elisp, but emacs with org-mode really is a blast. I love my agenda: whenever I get confused what I was about to do, it is only some keystrokes away. I feel insanely organized while forgetting everything…

Did you find mu4e difficult to set up? That's something I started investigating lately but the things I've seen all feel somewhat more involved than anything else I've done with emacs.

That one is a bit confusing, yes. I had to read some manuals and exaaples, but now it is working fine with mbsync. The arch linux wiki was helpful i think.

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by fastball »

crooked-v wrote: post #170
fastball wrote: post #35

Shameless plug: I've been building a similar tool for the past couple years, although it is not FOSS :( The major differentiator is that content is based around notecards rather than documents/files, and there are multiple ways to structure these cards. The most powerful way to organize things is with multi-parent nesting, where you put cards inside of other cards, and each card can have any number of parents. You ca…

A couple of quick bits of feedback, from trying it out for the first time: - The app locks itself to the browser's light/dark mode setting, with no way to change it. This is a huge pain for people like me who prefer a dark UI but light page content. - "where you put cards inside of other cards" - how to do this was totally unintuitive until random clicking around revealed that the edit button turned into a plus butto…

Thanks for the feedback!

- You can actually change this in the user menu. Default is set to your system settings, but you can choose either light or dark as well. Plan to introduce different themes for light vs. dark in the near future as well.

- Drag-and-drop is coming in the next update (due to be released in a week or so).

- More sharing features methods are coming soon!

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by ralls_ebfe »

DonaldPShimoda wrote: post #89
ralls_ebfe wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Switched to emacs(spacemacs) from vim last year, because I wanted to know what the craze with org-mode is all about. Am using mu4e, elfeed, rcirc, magit, org-mode and started using org-roam this week. I still suck at elisp, but emacs with org-mode really is a blast. I love my agenda: whenever I get confused what I was about to do, it is only some keystrokes away. I feel insanely organized while forgetting everything…

Did you find mu4e difficult to set up? That's something I started investigating lately but the things I've seen all feel somewhat more involved than anything else I've done with emacs.

But it is worth the struggle. I can now create links to emails inside of my todos, or even better: capture mails with org-capture into todos.

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by mrkwse »

input_sh wrote: post #104
stevesimmons wrote: post #64

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In the last week, I've started using Foam too. It hits the sweet spot for me: - Plain Markdown files stored in git; exactly what I am used to for code. - Editor is VisualStudioCode, which I always have open, and can configure however I like. - No vendor lock-in.

You have to do the sync via GitHub, which is in and of itself a vendor lock-in in my opinion. I really don't get why I can't just point to any Git repo for syncing purposes.

I only started using it today so may be missing something, but how/why is it locked into GitHub? I can’t see anything specific to GitHub (and I used the full recommended extension set).

Not only that but I can’t see anything to stop you setting it up in a more typical cloud file syncing service (e.g. Dropbox) directory and having everything happen effortlessly in the background?

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by jyounker »

jldugger wrote: post #124
vvillena wrote: post #101

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A Zettelkasten-style system is just a bunch of files in a single folder, with lots of links between them. What makes these kinds of notes work is the purpose they are written for, and the links. Two people can have the exact same notes, but link and tag them completely differently, because each of them will have different goals and purposes.

So basically a personal Wiki for generation Z.

If you consider people born in 1927 (the inventor of the system) to be generation Z, then yes.

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by crooked-v »

fastball wrote: post #173
crooked-v wrote: post #170

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A couple of quick bits of feedback, from trying it out for the first time: - The app locks itself to the browser's light/dark mode setting, with no way to change it. This is a huge pain for people like me who prefer a dark UI but light page content. - "where you put cards inside of other cards" - how to do this was totally unintuitive until random clicking around revealed that the edit button turned into a plus butto…

Thanks for the feedback! - You can actually change this in the user menu. Default is set to your system settings, but you can choose either light or dark as well. Plan to introduce different themes for light vs. dark in the near future as well. - Drag-and-drop is coming in the next update (due to be released in a week or so). - More sharing features methods are coming soon!

> You can actually change this in the user menu.

Now that I went looking for this, I saw it - but before that, I just thought it was weird menu decoration. It should just be an actual menu item with a label (and preferably some kind of text selection rather than ambiguous icons).

> More sharing features methods are coming soon!

But I don't even know how to share anything in the first place. That's part of the problem.

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by pkalinowski »

koheripbal wrote: post #144
npongratz wrote: post #130

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My experience with Google Docs makes me want to strangle it. It's slow, unresponsive, uses a ton of memory, and I can't shake the constant nagging weight of surveillance being done against me. EDIT: Oh, and just this last week, I found it couldn't understand that I wanted to use "set up" as a verb, instead of "setup", the noun. Constant underlining when underlining was neither necessary nor desired. Apparently when I…

My daily journal is up to 110 pages long. I haven't noticed any performance issues (though it does take 5-6 seconds to load on mobile). As for autocorrect - you can turn that off in Tools->Spelling and Grammar.

In my experience input lag in Google Docs is very small but noticeable compared to local writing.

You can get used to it, but I prefer more snappy experience.

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by pjmlp »

app4soft wrote: post #175

> Zettlr is powered by Electron, Uh, I would prefer VNote editor + Viki instead. [0] https://github.com/tamlok/vnote [1] https://github.com/tamlok/viki

And me Markdown Monster.

https://github.com/RickStrahl/MarkdownMonster

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