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[John Paquette <johnhpaquette@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use Zim also for both work and home-related notebooks. For about a year
now.

Like Alexey, I use a source control system to share my notebooks across
computers. I use Mercurial. I tried the plugin, but it didn't work for me.
So I use Mercurial outside the Zim app, on Windows.

When I recommend Zim to people, they mention Evernote. I've tried Evernote,
and I don't like it, mainly because it's not *trivial* and *fast *to create
links between pages. Evernote is about creating an outline. Zim is not. It
gives you the *Index* for free, which looks like an outline, but it isn't
an outline because you can't reorder it--and that's good and right!

Zim has really fast search, but it's the really fast arbitrary linking that
keeps me using it, especially since when I move or rename a page, the links
get updated.

What's most important to me about Zim is that any given item (page) serves
two purposes:

1. It can contain content.
2. It can collect and order other content by reference (links).

The backlinks pane is also awesome, as it tells you *in what collections *a
given content item (page) falls.

I've seen some suggestions for adding "tags" to Zim, but that seems
redundant to me, as any page can act like a tag, and you can see a page's
"tags" by looking at the backlinks.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 4:02 PM Alexey <a1111exe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been using Zim every day for about 7 years. At work and at home. The
> only comparable alternative for me was TheBrain, but 1st they dropped Linux
> support, and 2nd they use database to save the work.
>
>
> For me the killer features of Zim are: plain text, LaTeX support, global
> search through notebook (I'd like to have also a global search through all
> notebooks option).
>
>
> The plain text format feature helps me to use Git in a kind of abusive way
> to share my notebooks across my computers. I have a bare repository
> (server-side) to which I push the committed changes and from which I pull
> them.
>
>
>
> On 23/06/2018 10:31, Gordon Zano wrote:
>
> How is that for a catchy title!?
>
> I've been using Zim almost every day (Mo-Fr) for about 5yrs.
> I recently wondered if there was anything comparable out there and had a
> look, but couldn't find anything that I preferred.
>
> A couple of candidates that are close are CherryTree and Tiddlywiki.
> I gave TiddlyWiki about 30min of my time, but found it very non-intuitive
> and gave up.  I felt it was something for web developers!
>
> Confluence looks OK if you don't mind the big java footprint, but it's
> designed for workgroups.
>
> What have you used before moving to Zim Wiki?
> Ever tested other products since?
>
> --
> Gordon
>
>
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