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• 2markdown – Transform Websites into Markdown

  I'll stick with using Markdownload (https://github.com/deathau/markdownload) when I need to do something like this. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• A structured note-taking app for personal use

  > Not really. Obsidian has its shares of problems too, and most of them originate from using Markdown. Aha. Which problems do you mean? > Markdown is a freeform text-format, and works very well for writing text, but it really sucks for data and structured content. Joplin is using md to. And if Joplin does a good job on "data" and "structured content" (whatever you mean by that) by separating that in their DB, it's... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• What are your second brain apps like Obsidian?

  Markdownload - (firefox) - I can use to download entire webpages into markdown - https://github.com/deathau/markdownload - sometimes it's just easier to snippet out a thing I want to keep or reference. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

  Since I generally have no clue what technologies are popular (other than the obvious big name projects) I'll just toss out some interesting links I've recently bookmarked in comments here. - gron (Greppable JSON): https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron - Lean4 links: -- Theorem proving: https://lean-lang.org/theorem_proving_in_lean4/introduction.html -- Natural Number Game:... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

  My perfect bookmark manager is Markdownload https://github.com/deathau/markdownload Just save the complete page, only selected text or only the link to a markdown file or Obsidian. With downloaded, linked or without pictures. My OS and Obsidian can search those files, they have more (automatically added) metadata. I can even edit them in the browser: add your... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Should we be saving our favorite information locally?

  Yes and no. Instead of PDF, use Markdownload (on iOS, use a Safari web content to markdown file extension): https://github.com/deathau/markdownload And save in a journaled folder like "YYYY-MM-DD - Page Title.md" with a YAML frontmatter of all available metadata. Have this as a folder in your PKM of choice (Obsidian, Foam, whatever). These days, point some text... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago