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["John R. Marks, IV" <jrm4@xxxxxxxx>]

Interesting stuff on "zim as a site generator" Broadly, I get what 
people are saying about the "intent" of jekyll, but as a bit of an 
old-timer, I'm inclined to go with what I like, especially having seen 
many intended projects underperform "unintended" ones -- Wordpress may 
be the perfect example of that, probably one of the best CMS' that did 
not start out as one.

Anyway, to my crazy idea:  I'm the creator of the eight-five-zero remix 
html template and I'm about to try to create a comment system compatible 
with and created in zim as a template, in php, designed for 
ultra-simplicity. As in:
Flat file, no sql, single page with comments stored in an "adjacent" 
text file and "included" or otherwise parsed by php into the page. 
Similar to (and perhaps based on) the below project.

https://github.com/rosslagerwall/simplecommentsystem

Only additional thing I can see doing is a simple captcha as well.

Interested in thoughts (especially if anyone has tried or thought of 
anything like this  --mostly within the bounds of what I've described, 
I've considered MANY more complex alternatives but I want to see if this 
can be done simply, within zim.


John



On 9/6/19 4:22 PM, Marko Mahnič wrote:
> I have created a plugin for Zim that enables a more advanced site 
> generation. The plugin prepares Markdown pages with attributes and 
> calls Pandoc to generate an HTML site from Markdown. The pages have 
> YAML attributes that guide the transformation. Each page can be 
> generated with its own template. The plugin has support for news-like 
> pages with automatic index generation.
>
> The plugin is available at 
> https://github.com/mmahnic/zim-plugin-siteexporter .
>
> The documentation for the plugin generated by the plugin is at 
> https://mmahnic.github.io/zim-siteexporter-doc/
>
> The plugin was only tested with Zim 0.68; I didn't have time to test 
> it with newer versions.
>
> Since Pandoc is used for final generation, I guess the plugin could be 
> adapted to prepare other types of documents, not only HTML sites.
>
> Marko
>
>
> On 5. 09. 19 14:02, Guilherme Lino wrote:
> > Agreed. I would say Zim and Jekyll have different objectives.
> >
> > Zim:
> > Mostly content for *private *consumption
> > Quick note taking and format
> > Still can be exported to html, pdf, markdown
> > Can publish a basic website
> > Simple layout
> > WYSIWYG
> > Best, quick and practical, note taking app I have tested
> > Can be improved on TODOs management
> >
> > Jekyll:
> > Mostlycontent for *public *consumption
> > Generate website from markdown
> > Very customizable, with a themes
> > Not WYSIWYG, so you probably should use a markdown editor
> > Bigger community, more extensions and integrations
> >
> > Others I had a look:
> > Website generators
> > https://jekyllrb.com/
> > https://gohugo.io/
> >
> > Desktop - Private/draft note applications
> > https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/
> > https://www.mindforger.com/
> > https://tamlok.github.io/vnote/en_us
> > https://joplinapp.org/
> > http://treeline.bellz.org/index.html (object templates)
> > https://www.qownnotes.org/
> > https://boostnote.io/
> > https://rednotebook.sourceforge.io/
> > http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/
> > https://github.com/zadam/trilium
> >
> > (some are markdown)
> >
> > Android (Note/Todo)
> > https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.billthefarmer.diary/
> > - Similar to Zim journal
> > - Also use everyday like Zim
> > http://www.orgzly.com/
> > - Org mode
> > https://f-droid.org/en/packages/nl.mpcjanssen.simpletask/
> > - Todo txt
> > https://gsantner.net/project/markor.html
> > - Mobile most similar to Zim
> > - Not WYSIWG
> > - Some glitches sometimes
> >
> > Markdown editors
> > https://markdownmonster.west-wind.com/
> > https://zettlr.com/
> >
> > Others
> > https://www.zotero.org/
>
>
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