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Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by mcint »

fsiefken wrote: post #26

Interesting! Tiddlywiki with all of it's plugins, tags, search amd markdown support is still preferable to me. It is even more crossplatform as it works locally in my Quest as well (termux webdav rb script)

What is your current setup?

I quite happily and successfully used MPTW to manage work knowledge, tasks, and context for 2 years. Between leaving the related job and the odious save workarounds for pre-TW5 wikis, I stopped using it. I've made multiple multi-hour attempts to find a workable TW5 configuration, with both the TW5 legacy plugin and searching for replacement plugins.

Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by kieckerjan »

formalsystem wrote: post #5

I've tried more than a couple of times to use a personal knowledge base and haven't been succesful in making it stick. My process so far has been I keep a daily journal where I write down the most interesting things I learnt or did everyday. If my daily notes are getting unwieldy then I use a Markdown file which I sync on Github. And when I really want to make sure that I've understood something I'll either write a b…

Sounds like you have the bulk of a successful routine in place already. The only thing that is missing is a regular moment when you sit down and sift through all your recent notes and connect them to your knowledge base, whatever that is. I suspect that this feels a bit pointless at first but I understand that it soon becomes satisfying and useful. (Beginner here, hence the cautious tone.)

Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by ahnick »

mcint wrote: post #32
fsiefken wrote: post #26

Interesting! Tiddlywiki with all of it's plugins, tags, search amd markdown support is still preferable to me. It is even more crossplatform as it works locally in my Quest as well (termux webdav rb script)

What is your current setup? I quite happily and successfully used MPTW to manage work knowledge, tasks, and context for 2 years. Between leaving the related job and the odious save workarounds for pre-TW5 wikis, I stopped using it. I've made multiple multi-hour attempts to find a workable TW5 configuration, with both the TW5 legacy plugin and searching for replacement plugins.

Not sure if you have run across NoteSelf (https://noteself.org/) before, but it is basically TiddlyWiki + PouchDb. Maybe that would be a workable solution for you?

Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by The_Colonel »

yasoob wrote: post #29
munfred wrote: post #16

I 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).

This makes me wonder if there is feasibility for P2P collaborative editing feature in trillium.

It is actually explicitly a non-feature: https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/FAQ#multi-user-support

Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by nicbou »

souterrain wrote: post #9

I 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?

This was my experience with my photo collection. I pretty much abandoned Lightroom because Google lets me type "pug" in the search box and find all of my pug pictures.

It also holds my pictures and their metadata hostage but that's another story.

Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by radarsat1 »

souterrain wrote: post #9

I 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?

My "all search" solution is a text file. Works great.
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