You Need A Wiki VS Zeal

You Need A Wiki Reviews

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You Need A Wiki mentions (12)

• How do you organise your information?

  Personally I use YNAW (You Need A Wiki), which makes you a wiki using google drive, I know obsidian is also good but it just doesn't jive right for me. Source: 5 months ago

• Is it Common Practice to use a “Dev Wiki”?

  I personally use google drive, and use https://youneedawiki.com/ to display it as a wiki. Completely free. Source: 11 months ago

• Looking for an oddly specific Wiki service feature. Is there one that does this?

  Is there a wiki that has a sidebar which uses some kind of expandable / collapsable folder structure that makes the taxonomy really clear? Here's an example as used in youneedawiki. I really like how clear and fast it is to see where you are in any particular knowledge branch. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Making the best of GitHub and Google Docs for a new startup

  Trying to nail down what tools we will use as a fully remote team needing to work asynchronously. We will have paid versions of GitHub (Teams) and Google Workspace for email / calendar and docs. I did look at notion, clickup but I honestly think I prefer limiting our spend on an extra tool. What I like about notion is how its got a wiki structure, and this is where G-Docs leaves us short. The performance of... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• How do YOU collect your notes and thoughts before writing?

  There's an add-on to Google drive called "You Need a Wiki" that lets you build your own Wikipedia out of folders and Google Docs. The ability to add links between sites and documents makes it an excellent way to organise research and notes. Source: over 1 year ago

Zeal mentions (63)

• DevDocs

  There's also Zeal (https://zealdocs.org/) which is basically the same as Dash but open source and runs on non-Mac devices. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?

  For offline tech documentation you can use Zeal. Must have tool for poor internet connection places. Present in ubuntu repos. https://zealdocs.org/. Source: 5 months ago

• Ask HN: How do I code offline for a week?

  Check out Zeal if git cloning docs is something you do. https://zealdocs.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: How do I code offline for a week?

  There’s stuff like https://zealdocs.org/ that allow you to take all relevant documentation with you so offline coding will work. If you just want to be productive, you could also bring a lot of books or downloaded tutorials on a drive. Btw, make sure your drive is encrypted and you think of a way to backup your data so you don’t lose the offline progress. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed

  I’d suggest you look into Kiwix¹ and also Zeal². 1. https://www.kiwix.org/ 2. https://zealdocs.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago