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Gemini Notetaking

This is an experiment to use gemini documents (.gmi) as a way to take notes. One thing that is different about gemini documents from plaintext documents is that plaintext is typically formatted into 80 columns. Gemini documents are designed to flow so there is no explicit linebreaking.

Gemini also supports basic document formatting such as:

Unordered Lists

Item 1
Item 2
Item 3

Quoted lines

But the motion to keep the planet going in a straight line has no known reason. The reason why things coast for ever has never been found out. The law of inertia has no known origin.

Formatted blocks

/* number of leading zero bits in a byte */
static inline int
msb(unsigned char b)
{
	int n = 0;

	if (b == 0)
		return 8;

	while (b >>= 1)
		n++;

	return 7-n;
}

Links

Probably my favourite feature of gemini documents is non-inline links. You can do non-inline links with markdown using [1] references, but I find gemini links are a bit cleaner:

=> index.gmi Index

Which appears as

Index

This doesn't break the reading flow like inline links do when viewing a raw markdown document. This is a big deal since I still want to be able to traverse links from within vim (gf) without having the visual nausea of inline links.