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[Karthik Tayur <karthikstayur@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
The closest alternative to Zim is Zotero/Juris-M. I use Zotero for collating reading material. Nothing beats Zim Wiki for its ease of use and reliability. Not to mention the plugins + LaTeX. Zotero/Juris-M works slightly differently, with excellent integration with the web browser, and indexing of all attachments. 
CherryTree comes second to me as a Zim alternative. It has a useful import option for Zim (doesn't work for attachments however). It has rich formatting options, include internal referencing. It saves everything as a database. I do not use CherryTree as reliability was my concern, something which Zim's plaintext nature renders non-existent.

> 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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