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I use vimwiki, and I'm really liking the simplicity of plain text notes (markdown in my case). I've never used orgmode, but I prefer to use other tools for to-d

I use vimwiki, and I'm really liking the simplicity of plain text notes (markdown in my case). I've never used orgmode, but I prefer to use other tools for to-dos and calendar/organization anyways. From reading about it, I think the only feature I'd really like to have is literate programming, which looks cool. Also, the tag search appears to support expressions, which vimwiki doesn't. One area that I'm struggling with is making my notes easily viewable, editable and searchable on mobile. Syncthing + Markor for editing takes care of the editable part, but they aren't displayed nicely or easily searchable by text or tags. Exporting to HTML would make them nicer to read, but still not searchable. App and browser based solutions are much nicer in this regard, but I'm not willing to compromise on the other great benefits of programs like vimwiki/orgmode. If you or anyone else has experience or an opinion, I'd be glad to hear about it.

lilseb 8y ago
On Android I use an App called Epsilon Notes synced to my vimwiki via syncthing. It handles md files like vimwiki.
- matt-snider 8y ago
  Thanks, I'll check it out! EDIT: it's a great app! Supports search and preview mode, links work properly too. It's just unfortunate that it's not open-source, which I find pretty important for some of the sensitive information that might be in a personal wiki.
confounded 8y ago
The plaintext editor in NextCloud for iOS is basic, but works quite well for me.
patrickdavey 8y ago
I made a little gem called vimwiki_ markdown which would help with the HTML part. https://github.com/patrickdavey/vimwiki_markdown https://github.com/patrickdavey/vimwiki_markdown
- matt-snider 8y ago
  I actually am already using vim_markdown - thanks! It works well in terms of rendering, but I still have no ability to search, which I guess isn't the responsibility of vimwiki/vimwiki_markdown, but might need to be some postprocessing step.
mickael-kerjean 8y ago
> I'm not willing to compromise on the other great benefits of programs like vimwiki/orgmode. Orgmode has some very decent web client: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage/wiki/Release-0.1:-Org-Mode-everywhere https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage/wiki/Release-0.1:-O...) disclaimer: I'm the author

lilseb 8y ago

On Android I use an App called Epsilon Notes synced to my vimwiki via syncthing. It handles md files like vimwiki.

matt-snider 8y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out! EDIT: it's a great app! Supports search and preview mode, links work properly too. It's just unfortunate that it's not open-source, which I find pretty important for some of the sensitive information that might be in a personal wiki.

confounded 8y ago

The plaintext editor in NextCloud for iOS is basic, but works quite well for me.

patrickdavey 8y ago

I made a little gem called vimwiki_ markdown which would help with the HTML part. https://github.com/patrickdavey/vimwiki_markdown https://github.com/patrickdavey/vimwiki_markdown

matt-snider 8y ago
I actually am already using vim_markdown - thanks! It works well in terms of rendering, but I still have no ability to search, which I guess isn't the responsibility of vimwiki/vimwiki_markdown, but might need to be some postprocessing step.

mickael-kerjean 8y ago

> I'm not willing to compromise on the other great benefits of programs like vimwiki/orgmode. Orgmode has some very decent web client: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage/wiki/Release-0.1:-Org-Mode-everywhere https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage/wiki/Release-0.1:-O...) disclaimer: I'm the author