Zeal Reviews and details

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• 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 / 3 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

• What's the Difference Between `ruby-doc.org` and `docs.ruby-lang.org`?

  For offline documentation, I use Zeal (called Dash on macos) which looks/works almost identically to rubydoc.info but much faster since it's offline, has a standard interface for all installed language documentations, and only 1 global hotkey away while programming. Source: 10 months ago

• Googling for answers costs you time

  I highly recommend using local solutions to this local issue: Zeal[1] (aka Dash[2] on MacOS) Load up the "docsets" of your languages (lightly edited HTML docs for indexing purposes) and use a global keyboard shortcut (F8 for me) to pull up Python/Postgres/Terraform docs, searching for the right function without internet query. This isn't straight up applicable to all questions of course, but "How do I search... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Ask HN: I won't have Internet access for months, how could use my time?

  There's https://zealdocs.org and it's something similar if not the same. For Mac you need to buy the Dash app. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Where/how do you view and search Nim's docs?

  I'm using Zeal offline documentation browser for that. You can download separately the whole Nim documentation as a "doscset" and search procedures, modules, types, etc by their names. It also has integrations with many editors. Source: about 1 year ago

• Downloading and updating official documentation as it changes

  I also use Zeal for some things: https://zealdocs.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Where do i get offline wiki?

  You can also try using an offline documentation browser tool such as Dash (macOS only) and Zeal (cross-platform). Source: about 1 year ago

• My thoughts after a week of ChatGPT usage

  As a dev - It's a good (very good, in fact) alternative for man, tldr, cheat and zeal (and probably tens of other projects - sorry for not mentioning you) with a very pleasant interface - which was the point I think ;). Source: over 1 year ago

• Best quick references?

  I've started using Dash on the mac. Zeal uses the same docsets on Linux/Windows. It's mostly a repackaging (and indexing) of the standard docs, but the search box does such a good job getting me to exactly the right place that it works as a quick reference for me. Some of the docsets include "cheat sheets" but I don't think there are any I find myself using much for django. Source: over 1 year ago

• there is a command that would host the docs locally, does anyone remember it?

  The only way I see is to install Zeal. Once installed you can install the docset for anything (almost) you may want, including the Python doc. Source: over 1 year ago

• linux c++ devs, what does your dev environment look like?

  Neovim in tmux, or neovim-qt if I don't need to be able to attach to the session remotely. I occasionally bounce back to Emacs, but that's becoming less often now that the TreeSitter and LSP plugins for Neovim have gotten so good. All of that lives in an Xorg session managed by i3. Docs live in zeal. Source: over 1 year ago

• The Overflow Offline Project – Stack Overflow Blog

  You should check out Zeal, it's an offline documentation browser with existing documentation packages for HTML and a whole bunch of things https://zealdocs.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Offline resources during internet outages?

  Offline documentation browser like https://kapeli.com/dash or https://zealdocs.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• I’m a Productive Programmer with a Memory of a Fruit Fly

  > Having all API docs one key press away is profoundly empowering. > While Dash is a $30 Mac app, there’s the free Windows and Linux version called Zeal[1], and a $20 Windows app called Velocity[2]. Of course there’s also at least one Emacs package doing the same thing: helm-dash[3]. [0] https://kapeli.com/dash [1] https://zealdocs.org/ [2] https://velocity.silverlakesoftware.com/ [3]... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Is there a good way to learn the differences between C89, C99, and C11 without reading the standards?

  I love Zeal and Dash, they‘re awesome when I‘m on the go and don‘t have easy internet access. It‘s a convenient way to view documentation even when online. Source: over 1 year ago

• Was going to refresh my CSS, made this meme instead.

  If you're on Linux, install zeal documentation browser. Source: over 1 year ago

• Cppreference-like documentation for Rust?

  I'm on Linux and use the dash docsets available through the zeal browser https://zealdocs.org/ for offline browsing of the Rust documentation. It's search functionality allows me to find references to concepts not just from doc.rustlang.org but also from the specification, the book and some other resources. Source: over 1 year ago