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Re:Roam – Tool for Thinking by bayindirh on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:28AM (#21441385)
Also there's Zim wiki [0] which runs on the desktop. I use it to create a ton of notes and knowledge piles.

Zim's UI looks more dated and simpler, but underneath it's extremely powerful.

[0]: https://zim-wiki.org/

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Re:Roam – Tool for Thinking by canada_dry on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:46PM (#21448482)
+1 for Zim.

The UI is utilitarian, simple and efficient. It stores all of its note files as .txt so there's lots of other ways to access the info (e.g. grep).

Zim is extensible with a variety of useful plugins too.

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Re:Roam – Tool for Thinking by bayindirh on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @02:03AM (#21450313)
I use it with the plugins enabled and, it helps a great deal for my knowledge organization and acquisition.

Its simple file structure also allows me to pair it with syncthing [0], and sync all of my computers with each other seamlessly. So I have my own self-syncing document trove and knowledge base without any considerable effort.

Using simple apps and integrating them is much more powerful than it looks, and it's one of the simpler things that I enjoy immensely.

[0]: https://syncthing.net/

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