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Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench

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Re: Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench

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Post by pogue »

Tomte wrote: post #3
1oooqooq wrote: post #2

grammarly but local? given that grammarly started way before heavy llms, i assume there's none of that here also?

See https://docs.zettlr.com/en/core/readability/

It sounds good. Can you plug it in to a local or online LLM to check grammar & have it proof read if I wanted?

Re: Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench

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Post by treetalker »

I think it’s trying to be a markdown-based Obsidian/Logseq zettelkasten with built-in support for (1) interfacing with reference managers and (2) exporting/publishing with LaTeX/pandoc.

If you want to see it and get an idea about what it does and how it’s supposed to be used, go here:

https://docs.zettlr.com/en/core/user-interface/

Finding that information took some digging — although there is a visual on the homepage after scrolling several screens down (at least on mobile).

Constructive feedback for the team: I find the website and documentation difficult to use because they present details first and main ideas later. See if you can put the bottom line on the top line.

Also, as I navigated through the site, every time I followed a link I got asked, again and again, whether I wanted to opt out of cookies and data collection. Answering once should be enough.

Re: Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench

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Post by kvmet »

I use Zettlr somewhat often. Honestly my favorite features are just:

- inline markdown preview

- VIM Keybinds (with some issues, as many implementations have)

- mermaid and LaTeX math support built in

(Notice that 2/3 of these are easily done on many other editors via plugins/extensions)

It has some other nice things too but I find it to be kind of slow and clunky. Still I come back for the way markdown works there because it feels like WYSIWYG but without so much mouse clicking. I have minimally used the pandoc and other publishing features but wasn't blown away by them vs just using pandoc

Re: Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench

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Post by slightwinder »

treetalker wrote: post #5

I think it’s trying to be a markdown-based Obsidian/Logseq zettelkasten with built-in support for (1) interfacing with reference managers and (2) exporting/publishing with LaTeX/pandoc. If you want to see it and get an idea about what it does and how it’s supposed to be used, go here: https://docs.zettlr.com/en/core/user-interface/ Finding that information took some digging — although there is a visual on the homepag…

> I think it’s trying to be a markdown-based Obsidian/Logseq zettelkasten

Zettlr is older than both of them. It has no plugins, and not sure about Logseq, but Obsidian is not really in the zettelkasten-cult. So besides also using Markdown and being notes-managers, there is very little resemblance between those apps.

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