Very cool. Mixes wiki, trello board, and graph centric views. Has all the nice content embedding, slash commands, etc. DOESN’T WORK OFFLINE :( (would be great otherwise)
Conor has been developing this with the Zettelkasten system as his inspiration. Biggest feature (in my mind) is “deep linking” things. You can link other notes to your note, and have them “expanded”, and if you edit the deep linked note in a parent note, it actual edits the linked note. Also, notes keep track of every place there mentioned. Allows for powerful spiderwebby knowledge connection. I’m playing with the beta, still getting familiar and don’t yet have much to say except that deep linking is exactly the feature I’ve always wanted and couldn’t find.
Desktop wiki that works for linux. Nothing fancy, uses a simple markdown esque syntax, everything is text files. I used that for a year, now I’m moving away. 1 reason is I want more rich outlining powers like folding, but I’m also broadly moving away from framing my notes as a “personal wiki” for reasons I’ll mention in another post.
Just a wiki software. When I first decided to use a wiki to organize my school notes, I used this. It’s an online tool which is --, but works okay as a wiki.
(what I’m currently using) Emacs is a magical extensible text editor, and org mode is a specific package for that editor. Org mode has great outlining capabilities, and unlimited possibilities for how you can customize stuff (coding required). The current thing that I’d really need for org mode to fit my needs is to be able to search my notes and see previews of them (think evernote search, you see the titles of notes, and a preview of the content). I think deft can get me this, haven’t installed yet though. Long term, it seems emacs is appealing because it seems like I can craft my own workflow with precision. Will take work though. Not recommended if you want something that “Just works”.
Have used a lot over the years. Great for capture (it’s on your phone and your desktop (but not linux [:(])). I’ve got several years of notes in there. I rarely build ideas in evernote though. This is a “works out of the box” app.
Products I’ve interacted with
Nuclino
Very cool. Mixes wiki, trello board, and graph centric views. Has all the nice content embedding, slash commands, etc. DOESN’T WORK OFFLINE :( (would be great otherwise)
Style/Inspiration: Wiki meets trello + extra.
Roam
Conor has been developing this with the Zettelkasten system as his inspiration. Biggest feature (in my mind) is “deep linking” things. You can link other notes to your note, and have them “expanded”, and if you edit the deep linked note in a parent note, it actual edits the linked note. Also, notes keep track of every place there mentioned. Allows for powerful spiderwebby knowledge connection. I’m playing with the beta, still getting familiar and don’t yet have much to say except that deep linking is exactly the feature I’ve always wanted and couldn’t find.
Zim Wiki
Desktop wiki that works for linux. Nothing fancy, uses a simple markdown esque syntax, everything is text files. I used that for a year, now I’m moving away. 1 reason is I want more rich outlining powers like folding, but I’m also broadly moving away from framing my notes as a “personal wiki” for reasons I’ll mention in another post.
PB Wiki
Just a wiki software. When I first decided to use a wiki to organize my school notes, I used this. It’s an online tool which is --, but works okay as a wiki.
Emacs Org Mode
(what I’m currently using) Emacs is a magical extensible text editor, and org mode is a specific package for that editor. Org mode has great outlining capabilities, and unlimited possibilities for how you can customize stuff (coding required). The current thing that I’d really need for org mode to fit my needs is to be able to search my notes and see previews of them (think evernote search, you see the titles of notes, and a preview of the content). I think deft can get me this, haven’t installed yet though. Long term, it seems emacs is appealing because it seems like I can craft my own workflow with precision. Will take work though. Not recommended if you want something that “Just works”.
Evernote
Have used a lot over the years. Great for capture (it’s on your phone and your desktop (but not linux [:(])). I’ve got several years of notes in there. I rarely build ideas in evernote though. This is a “works out of the box” app.