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It's GREAT to see vimwiki at the top of Hacker News. I've been using this for years, and keep all my notes in a wiki[0], written in GitHub flavour mark down, w

It's GREAT to see vimwiki at the top of Hacker News. I've been using this for years, and keep all my notes in a wiki[0], written in GitHub flavour mark down, with syntax highlighting etc. in the editor. I guess it's not orgmode (which sounds amazing), but it seems really really good to me. I created the vimwiki_markdown[1] gem which allows you to convert GH style markdown to HTML using the wiki. Now I might just call out to pandoc, but I didn't know about it at the time, and my gem works fine* I love that you can have project specific wikis etc. It's just so great. I'll also link to the relevant section in my .vimrc[2] if you are going to go down the markdown route. [0] http://wiki.psdavey.com http://wiki.psdavey.com [1] https://github.com/patrickdavey/vimwiki_markdown https://github.com/patrickdavey/vimwiki_markdown [2] https://github.com/patrickdavey/dotfiles/blob/682e72e4b7a70e50858d1a3b7f0713ce6b470fb6/vim/.vimrc#L243-L281 https://github.com/patrickdavey/dotfiles/blob/682e72e4b7a70e...

Kratisto 10y ago
Love your wiki. I've been trying to come up with a way to save my links/notes, and I really like how you have done it.
dotancohen 10y ago
How are checklists handled in Markdown? I've been wanting to move over to Markdown but I'm a heavy checklist user.
- enzanki_ars 10y ago
  - [ ] For an unchecked item - [x] For a checked item
  - dotancohen 10y ago
    Thank you!
haberman 10y ago
This definitely appeals to me for its simplicity, but the major downside to this approach (for me) is that you can't (easily) draw pictures. So often when I am taking notes, the notes involve diagrams. Markdown is great at text, but has nothing for diagrams. After a lot of thinking about this problem, I've decided to start using an iPad with an Apple Pencil and Microsoft OneNote. Here is an example of some notes I took when thinking about an AudioUnit plugin that would dilate time: https://1drv.ms/o/s!AtbMnk02vU5DgQBbmSeyPx9zd1Dn https://1drv.ms/o/s!AtbMnk02vU5DgQBbmSeyPx9zd1Dn VimWiki is definitely very cool. Just sharing this in case anyone out there has the same concern as me about drawing diagrams.
- elliotec 10y ago
  Yes, your method of iPad/Apple Pencil/Microsoft OneNote is the best note-taking experience I've had as well. OneNote is absolutely fantastic. That said, I rarely draw pictures and defer diagraming to my co workers, so vimwiki will fill a purpose for me.
- thehigherlife 10y ago
  how good is the handwriting recognition for searches etc?
  - haberman 10y ago
    The engine is very good; it's recognized all my writing. The downside is that it is offline -- it happens in the cloud. This means it's a little delayed and sometimes it seems mysteriously unavailable completely.
    - saghm 10y ago
      I find it interesting that you use the term "offline" to mean "in the cloud". I generally use it in the _opposite_ way.
      - haberman 10y ago
        Ha, I see your point. I used "offline" because it is happening in a way that is disconnected with my interactive usage. It doesn't analyze the handwriting as I write, it processes it in batch later, and this might even happen during a moment when I'm not connected to the internet. But I can see why this usage could be ambiguous or confusing.

Kratisto 10y ago

Love your wiki. I've been trying to come up with a way to save my links/notes, and I really like how you have done it.

dotancohen 10y ago

How are checklists handled in Markdown? I've been wanting to move over to Markdown but I'm a heavy checklist user.

enzanki_ars 10y ago
- [ ] For an unchecked item - [x] For a checked item
- dotancohen 10y ago
  Thank you!

haberman 10y ago

This definitely appeals to me for its simplicity, but the major downside to this approach (for me) is that you can't (easily) draw pictures. So often when I am taking notes, the notes involve diagrams. Markdown is great at text, but has nothing for diagrams. After a lot of thinking about this problem, I've decided to start using an iPad with an Apple Pencil and Microsoft OneNote. Here is an example of some notes I took when thinking about an AudioUnit plugin that would dilate time: https://1drv.ms/o/s!AtbMnk02vU5DgQBbmSeyPx9zd1Dn https://1drv.ms/o/s!AtbMnk02vU5DgQBbmSeyPx9zd1Dn VimWiki is definitely very cool. Just sharing this in case anyone out there has the same concern as me about drawing diagrams.

elliotec 10y ago
Yes, your method of iPad/Apple Pencil/Microsoft OneNote is the best note-taking experience I've had as well. OneNote is absolutely fantastic. That said, I rarely draw pictures and defer diagraming to my co workers, so vimwiki will fill a purpose for me.
thehigherlife 10y ago
how good is the handwriting recognition for searches etc?
- haberman 10y ago
  The engine is very good; it's recognized all my writing. The downside is that it is offline -- it happens in the cloud. This means it's a little delayed and sometimes it seems mysteriously unavailable completely.
  - saghm 10y ago
    I find it interesting that you use the term "offline" to mean "in the cloud". I generally use it in the _opposite_ way.
    - haberman 10y ago
      Ha, I see your point. I used "offline" because it is happening in a way that is disconnected with my interactive usage. It doesn't analyze the handwriting as I write, it processes it in batch later, and this might even happen during a moment when I'm not connected to the internet. But I can see why this usage could be ambiguous or confusing.