Re:Athens an open source Roam alternative
by bostonvaulter2 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:53PM
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I'm not fully convinced about WYSIWYG since it can be difficult to debug weird formatting. I wish more tools would investigate the WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) space, the only one I'm aware of is https://www.lyx.org/
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Re:Athens an open source Roam alternative
by benrbray on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:04AM
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ProseMirror [1] has (mostly) solved that problem in the browser with an excellent transaction-based wrapper around contenteditable! I highly recommend checking it out. I'm also the author of a WYSIWYG math plugin for ProseMirror [2].
For me, WYSIWYG is essential, since my notes contain a lot of math, and I don't want to stare at LaTeX source all day. For that reason, stopped using Overleaf in favor of Typora [1] for a while, but grew out of it as my note-base became large enough to need a good wikilink system.
Quarantine gave me enough free time to build my own note-taking app [3]. So, these days, when I get frustrated with my note-taking app, I have only myself to blame :)
[1] https://prosemirror.net/ [2] https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math [3] https://noteworthy.ink/