Write Plain Text Files

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Working Copy

Another advantage layers on the source control: many source code management services will render your markdown and give you a search interface. GitHub popularized it. But other hosts like Azure Devops and GitLab support this as well. You can make a relatively pleasant document management system on top of this. You can even run this on your own computer without an internet connection. Working Copy on iOS supports. Gollum, originally created by Tom Preston-Werner, strives to be compatiable with GitHub's wiki feature [2]. For my part, I've been learning Rust by writing a clone of Gollum called Smeagol [3]. Though really the point of the original article is: all these tool don't matter. Your plain text files can live longer than any of particular tool and continue to be useful. [1] https://workingcopyapp.com/ [2] https://github.com/gollum/gollum [3] https://smeagol.dev/.

#Git #Development #Git Tools 18 social mentions

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Plain Org

Plain text adoption often implies markdown for a richer experience, but we also have the wonderful https://orgmode.org markup. There is no shortage of markdown-based tools on all platforms. Our org markup options, on the other hand, are very few outside of Emacs. Org markup itself is super versatile and can power lots of use-cases. I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself: https://plainorg.com https://flathabits.com There are other great ones out there: https://beorg.app https://logseq.com https://organice.200ok.ch https://orgro.org http://orgzly.com Lastly, a shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only.

#Task Management #Note Taking #Project Management 37 social mentions

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Obsidian.md

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

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Writer Pro

I've been using iA Writer for all of my text and writing needs for many years, couldn't be happier. https://ia.net/writer.

#Markdown Editor #Writing #Knowledge Management 36 social mentions

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Vimwiki

> Every few years a new company says you should use their special format. You have to pay them a monthly fee to use it — or keep all of your documents in their care. [...] When you store your writing in one company’s unique format, then you need that program to access it. Then the economy takes a turn, they go out of business, and your work is trapped in an unusable format. This is something I've been dealing with lately. I have over a decade's worth of important personal and work files in proprietary formats, since I used Windows and Adobe's stuff for a long time. These days I'm using Linux exclusively, so my only option to read many of those formats is to hope that things like GIMP and Inkscape are able to open them somewhat accurately. All the documents I created in InDesign are as good as gone. I still have the files, but they're locked behind proprietary software that I couldn't use even if I wanted to. Oh, well... For creating documents I've been learning LaTeX, and for note-taking I quite like Vimwiki[1]. I don't do nearly as much graphics work as I used to, though I appreciate things like the fact that Inkscape uses plain SVG by default. I'd rather not be locked out of my own files again in the future. [1] https://vimwiki.github.io/.

#Perosnal Wiki #Note Taking #Personal Productivity 17 social mentions

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Antora

I think of it as "content and presentation should be as independent as possible". This is the content side: don't bother with fancy unreadable formats. I've been thinking about this as I try to think about my own personal website. I'd like to have my content versioned, but, was really not loving the idea of tying myself to even a static website generator. This is where I still ponder an approach more like antora (https://antora.org), where you can have a "doc repo" vs a "site repository". Thus, the concept of a version is really obvious. I've also recently reorganized my professional notes into... a git repo that is only structured markdown files, one file per day, organized by year/month. And... It just works great.

#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 21 social mentions

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Bear

I'm a big believer in this, but I use https://bear.app/. It supports the Markdown format and can export to .md files, but it uses SQLite under the hood, I believe. What's amazing about this is that your thought archive is now searchable (which is fast in bear).

#Office & Productivity #Word #Lifestyle 49 social mentions

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Asciidoctor

#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 24 social mentions

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FSNotes

Https://fsnot.es - FSNotes is a native (~100% Swift) FOSS app which I believe is modelled after Bear.app. I have been looking at it for sometime now, from a distance. Very active development. Lots of options. But it still doesn’t seem as stable as I would like it to be. Though sometimes it seems kinda all over. For example - it lets you set a storage and then another storage for “git” handling id you’d like to use it. Adding external folder doesn’t import the notes, it just shows a folder there. Sometimes restarting the app does the trick, or just removing or adding again. So there’s sync option (iCloud only), there’s storage location, there’s external folder addition, then there’s git as well. I am sharing it here because many of you might like these many features. I still believe it has huge potential and I’ll give it a more full fledged try once it has a more reliable and transparent sync option unlike what iCloud sync is (my biggest gripe with iCloud sync is it doesn’t let me choose where I want to see/keep the raw files and there’s no versioning and if there is I’m not. It fails not in silence but radio silence).

#Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Notes 22 social mentions

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TiddlyWiki

Just, without the CSS and Javascript. Adding in some script... Maybe people would like https://tiddlywiki.com/ Open Source, usable on iOS and Android via apps. Is pretty much a self contained webpage but it allows drag'n'drop image files onto the edit box.

#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 180 social mentions

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Gollum

Another advantage layers on the source control: many source code management services will render your markdown and give you a search interface. GitHub popularized it. But other hosts like Azure Devops and GitLab support this as well. You can make a relatively pleasant document management system on top of this. You can even run this on your own computer without an internet connection. Working Copy on iOS supports. Gollum, originally created by Tom Preston-Werner, strives to be compatiable with GitHub's wiki feature [2]. For my part, I've been learning Rust by writing a clone of Gollum called Smeagol [3]. Though really the point of the original article is: all these tool don't matter. Your plain text files can live longer than any of particular tool and continue to be useful. [1] https://workingcopyapp.com/ [2] https://github.com/gollum/gollum [3] https://smeagol.dev/.

#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 18 social mentions

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Notable App

For several years I was ad avid notepad.exe + plain text files practitioner for capturing any note but have switched to using https://notable.app for capturing any adhoc notes. It has the same in spirit & benefits of maintaining plain-text .md files in a static directory but has all the niceties of rich markdown, embeds, attachments, search and metadata captured in .md frontmatter to tag notes with categories + pinned notes in a minimal, focused UI. I've tried many but it's been the only note taking app that's stuck & replaced notepade.exe for me.

#Notes #Note Taking #Todos 33 social mentions

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Orgzly

Plain text adoption often implies markdown for a richer experience, but we also have the wonderful https://orgmode.org markup. There is no shortage of markdown-based tools on all platforms. Our org markup options, on the other hand, are very few outside of Emacs. Org markup itself is super versatile and can power lots of use-cases. I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself: https://plainorg.com https://flathabits.com There are other great ones out there: https://beorg.app https://logseq.com https://organice.200ok.ch https://orgro.org http://orgzly.com Lastly, a shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only.

#Note Taking #Task Management #Office & Productivity 14 social mentions

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Orgro

Plain text adoption often implies markdown for a richer experience, but we also have the wonderful https://orgmode.org markup. There is no shortage of markdown-based tools on all platforms. Our org markup options, on the other hand, are very few outside of Emacs. Org markup itself is super versatile and can power lots of use-cases. I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself: https://plainorg.com https://flathabits.com There are other great ones out there: https://beorg.app https://logseq.com https://organice.200ok.ch https://orgro.org http://orgzly.com Lastly, a shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only.

#Note Taking #Task Management #Project Management 13 social mentions

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Org mode

Plain text adoption often implies markdown for a richer experience, but we also have the wonderful https://orgmode.org markup. There is no shortage of markdown-based tools on all platforms. Our org markup options, on the other hand, are very few outside of Emacs. Org markup itself is super versatile and can power lots of use-cases. I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself: https://plainorg.com https://flathabits.com There are other great ones out there: https://beorg.app https://logseq.com https://organice.200ok.ch https://orgro.org http://orgzly.com Lastly, a shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only.

#Task Management #Project Management #Note Taking 174 social mentions

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Logseq

Plain text adoption often implies markdown for a richer experience, but we also have the wonderful https://orgmode.org markup. There is no shortage of markdown-based tools on all platforms. Our org markup options, on the other hand, are very few outside of Emacs. Org markup itself is super versatile and can power lots of use-cases. I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself: https://plainorg.com https://flathabits.com There are other great ones out there: https://beorg.app https://logseq.com https://organice.200ok.ch https://orgro.org http://orgzly.com Lastly, a shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only.

#Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Knowledge Base 280 social mentions

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Flat Habits

Plain text adoption often implies markdown for a richer experience, but we also have the wonderful https://orgmode.org markup. There is no shortage of markdown-based tools on all platforms. Our org markup options, on the other hand, are very few outside of Emacs. Org markup itself is super versatile and can power lots of use-cases. I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself: https://plainorg.com https://flathabits.com There are other great ones out there: https://beorg.app https://logseq.com https://organice.200ok.ch https://orgro.org http://orgzly.com Lastly, a shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only.

#Habit Tracker #Mobile #Privacy 40 social mentions