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[Nik <foringer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello list!
Before zim, I used keepnote, but its development stoped some years ago.
For me zim is perfect!

ср, 19 дек. 2018 г., 1:14 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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