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A while ago I wrote about my efforts to find a digital notetaking system that was sufficiently powerful to handle many kinds of notes, but simple enough to be manageable with only a generic text editor.
I initially tried Joplin, and while I'm still quite impressed with its feature-set, its flat-file synchronization system is far too complicated to be managed with just a text editor. My next choice was Markor, an app for Android that allowed for easy Markdown formatting. I have used this, combined with a simple organization system using a standardized filesystem hierarchy, to manage my notes for many months now.
A recent update to Markor introduced a format I had not seen before: the Zim wiki. Zim is a graphical text editor written in Python that uses plain text files and a straightforward Markdown-like syntax to build an interactive local wiki. It has many features, from inline images and binary attachments to tables and interactive lists, and plugins offer extended functionality such as spell-check and version control.
I've been using Zim for a few days now, and I'm extremely impressed with it. I see it becoming the primary means for me to take digital notes going forward. I'd love to see a tool that could convert Zim wiki pages into gemtext. Maybe I could write such a tool myself.
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