A second brain, for you, forever

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Logseq

I’d check out logseq [0]. Closer to roam than obsidian, but GPL, operates on plaintext files, and supports Org-mode style formatting as well as markdown. It’s getting to be fairly fully featured by now, and the development team moves fast. It’s a joy to use. [0]: https://logseq.com/.

#Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Knowledge Base 281 social mentions

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Obsidian.md

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1454 social mentions

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Mem

I really love obsidian. Sure I t has a couple of wrinkles, the mobile app is new still and has a couple more wrinkles, but it scratches so many itches I have around note taking. Currently using it alongside https://get.mem.ai/ and love the pairing for knowledge base and real time notes. I’m working from n combining the two to come up with my ideal set up.

#Productivity #Task Management #Note 6 social mentions

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TiddlyWiki

The Open Source solution which serves me well for years has been TiddyWiki (1). Supports Tags and various modes of output. Each page one file or all in one, very open so recursive changes can be applied on the shell in plain files. (1) https://tiddlywiki.com/.

#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 182 social mentions

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Notabase.io

Might be worth checking out Notabase [0]. The UI is designed to be really clean and easy-to-use. [0]: https://notabase.io.

#Notes #Note Taking #Personal Knowledge Base 8 social mentions

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Zettlr

I've been using MS Word with a heavy reliance on Track Changes for years, and I'm converting my technical writing department to use Markdown as fast as I can. I have moved them to the WYSIWYG-on-Markdown editor <i>Zettlr</i>[1], and my non-technical writers have praised it for being "almost-not-techie at all". I can't stand one more MS magic trick to auto-formatting on copy-paste (while mangling half of the styles) or figuring out why some objects simply disappeared or why Word rejects applying some format or layout. When your job is to keep working on expanding the same hundred-pages-long document year after year, you learn every trick to fix the random MS Word bugs and protect your document from being destroyed by the software 20 times a day, and it ain't pretty. [1] https://zettlr.com/.

#Note Taking #Markdown Editor #Knowledge Management 10 social mentions

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Foam

I like to use Obsidian on iOS and then Foam on my computer. They happen to have a lot of the same custom Markdown syntax, and I prefer using VS Code on my computer :) https://foambubble.github.io/foam/.

#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 45 social mentions

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Dynalist

#Note Taking #Project Management #Task Management 24 social mentions

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Bat

And some more snippets since I'm copying and pasting already. (I'm using "bat" to view files. Get it from https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ) <pre><code> 40 │ ;; Taken from https://karl-voit.at/2017/02/11/my-system-is-foobar/.

#Note Taking #Terminal Tools #Productivity 103 social mentions

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GitJournal

If you wish to also edit those files on mobile, GitJournal [0] could be useful for you. I've even added basic org-mode support. [0] https://gitjournal.io.

#Note Taking #Notes #Knowledge Management 23 social mentions

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Zim Wiki

Just to chime in here, long time "http://zim-wiki.org" guy here. I'm still basically sticking with Zim for <i>most</i> of what I do, but that's probably mostly the equivalent of "personal muscle memory," for structured things. But I am moving to Obsidian for anything "non-heirarchical" or "unstructured;" which for me is my "bookmarking" system as well as my personal Zettelkasten/brain exploring gardeny thing. The graph and extensibility is just fantastic, and I like knowing that I can export it wherever whenever.

#WiKi #Note Taking #Task Management 115 social mentions

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Medium

Oh, there are better ways, there's just no paying customers. You can express knowledge using a Semantic Web Stack[1] and query it with SPARQL or Turtle. Wikidata[2] is an example of this. But I'm not aware of anyone selling a product that completely encompasses building and using a large semantic knowledge base <i>for consumers</i>. Some industries have Semantic Web-based solutions (i'm not aware of commercial ones but I assume they exist), but nobody has yet explained to the consumer why or how they should build ontologies or semantic triples. The terminology itself is probably a barrier to market. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web_Stack [2] https://medium.com/@swaapniil/a-guide-to-using-sparql-queries-playing-with-wikidata-cc5e2f6a5ffc.

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2219 social mentions