MemPad VS Zim Wiki

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MemPad mentions (5)

• How do you record your ideas throughout the day?

  I spend 90% of my time at a Windows keyboard, so use MemPad https://horstmuc.de/wmem.htm as a software version of a spiral-bound notebook. It does literally nothing other than being a stack of notepad pages that you can reorder or search. Source: about 1 year ago

• Dungeons and Dragons Digital Character Sheet and document formatting questions

  If he prefers to maintain plaintext notes somewhere else, the best tool I've found is a version of a sectionable spiral notebook. MemPad does the trick wonderfully. Source: about 2 years ago

• got Linux running on a dell inspiron 8100 antix is the only distro that would show a display and that supported 32bit systems

  All Office programs, and most 'big' editors have outlining modes, but to me the small size is a necessary feature; Unhelpful Linux developers have often suggested that I use emacs in org-mode - but since I need to save 10.000's of files, each together with the creating software, a 600 MB installation is not what I want... I you use windows, take a look at MemPad. Source: about 2 years ago

• What's the Best Wiki for a Self Hosted Home Lab?

  My personal help-file is literally over 9000 pages long, if printed. That is slightly unwieldy in a single text file. I want to keep things as simple as possible, make data-export/migration simple, and (Important!) be sure that the files can be read 30 years from now. So I use MemPad, a simple outliner that saves in a format that can be read by Notebook (or any other text editor) Extraction/export of... Source: about 2 years ago

• UPDATE: After reading 600+ of your comments, here is the updated list of open source Linux programs mostly for beginners (thus mostly gui).

  That looks interesting! The app that keeps me on windows is a small, .txt based, outliner - something that for some strange reason don't seem to exist in the 'nix-sphere. I have tried asking Linux forums for suggestions for a comparable program, but always get '[[REDACTED ]]off' answers... I keep literally thousands of outline files on removable media, and (for archival purposes) all needs to be followed by the... Source: over 2 years ago

Zim Wiki mentions (115)

• Show HN: A Python-based static site generator using Jinja templates

  I'll slightly modify your argument; because Pure HTML does suck: Why don't people make static sites with a simple "Markdown-or-Similar to HTML" converter, CSS, and vanilla JS...etc? (This is what I do, btw -- http://zim-wiki.org + a template). - Source: Hacker News / 29 days ago

• Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software

  You should add Zim [1] to the "Personal Knowledge Management" section :) [1] https://zim-wiki.org. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Sent – simple plaintext presentation tool

  Https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ And I just tweaked the CSS and added a bit of logic to included the possibility of one image per slide; as well as editing slides not with raw HTML but with https://zim-wiki.org (because that's what I'm really used to, I'm sure any Markdown thing would work just as well). - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• The rise and fall of the standard user interface

  Absolutely; recently I realize I wish I'd never learned vim. I use too many other programs that are at least CUA-ish ( http://zim-wiki.org is the most important app I use ) and now I kind of want out. I haven't yet tried Modeless Vim, but that looks like my next experiment. https://github.com/SebastianMuskalla/ModelessVim. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Writing HTML in HTML

  It is so hard not to feel REALLY SMUG reading stuff like this, as someone who has run my own website as the working primary source for my college instruction for the past 15 years or so using https://zim-wiki.org. (before Markdown was much of a thing!) It's borderline bizarre to have watched this method of doing things kind of die out, and then also come back in the form of "static site generators" --... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago