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does anyone know a simple app that allows hyperlinking within notes? I want to create a roam-style knowledge base, but atom is a bit too heavy for my purposes.

does anyone know a simple app that allows hyperlinking within notes? I want to create a roam-style knowledge base, but atom is a bit too heavy for my purposes. I prefer to keep things cross-compatible and future proof with .txt or .rtf, but to my knowledge, neither allow hyperlinking to documents

jwhb 6y ago
Zim Wiki is what you're looking for. It does a good job at linking different notes/pages and stores everything in a directory structure of plain text files. You can sync your notebook by Git or other means.
troydavis 6y ago
That sounds like Obsidian, which was submitted to HN yesterday: https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598) It supports links to other notes and to files: https://obsidian.md/features https://obsidian.md/features
- M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y ago
  how is it compared to Joplin?
bachmeier 6y ago
org-mode, vimwiki, zimwiki, TiddlyWiki, PmWiki, Dokuwiki (of the latter two, PmWiki is lighter, both can be run locally as standalone PHP apps).
- M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y ago
  any of those which would just support hyperlinking between documents? that's really the only functionality I need I might have to resort to org-mode, although I've heard it's quite complex. Have you heard anything about Joplin?
  - contravariant 6y ago
    Org-mode is extensive, but each constituent part is not necessarily complex. You can also use use emacs to edit markdown in a quasi-org-mode style. Meaning you can collapse headings globally with shift-tab (which cycles through all hidden, outline visible, all visible), or locally with tab (which similarly cycles through all hidden, outline, all visible). Edit: looks like markdown-mode also supports wiki-links between files. That should give you more or less what you want.
  - bachmeier 6y ago
    Joplin might do what you want, but it's not exactly light, and it's intended for markdown. If you really want just plain text, Fossil might be your best choice. Literally no setup, comes with a wiki, supports hyperlinking and wiki-style page creation, and you can use the minimalist wiki syntax described here: https://fossil-scm.org/home/wiki_rules https://fossil-scm.org/home/wiki_rules And you can create pages in a text editor and add them to the wiki at the command line if you want.
moehm 6y ago
I use notable[0], a desktop app, for this. My notes are in markdown (so pure text) and a hyperlink is just a [[file.md]]. [0] https://github.com/notable/notable https://github.com/notable/notable

jwhb 6y ago

Zim Wiki is what you're looking for. It does a good job at linking different notes/pages and stores everything in a directory structure of plain text files. You can sync your notebook by Git or other means.

troydavis 6y ago

That sounds like Obsidian, which was submitted to HN yesterday: https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598) It supports links to other notes and to files: https://obsidian.md/features https://obsidian.md/features

M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y ago
how is it compared to Joplin?

bachmeier 6y ago

org-mode, vimwiki, zimwiki, TiddlyWiki, PmWiki, Dokuwiki (of the latter two, PmWiki is lighter, both can be run locally as standalone PHP apps).

M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y ago
any of those which would just support hyperlinking between documents? that's really the only functionality I need I might have to resort to org-mode, although I've heard it's quite complex. Have you heard anything about Joplin?
- contravariant 6y ago
  Org-mode is extensive, but each constituent part is not necessarily complex. You can also use use emacs to edit markdown in a quasi-org-mode style. Meaning you can collapse headings globally with shift-tab (which cycles through all hidden, outline visible, all visible), or locally with tab (which similarly cycles through all hidden, outline, all visible). Edit: looks like markdown-mode also supports wiki-links between files. That should give you more or less what you want.
- bachmeier 6y ago
  Joplin might do what you want, but it's not exactly light, and it's intended for markdown. If you really want just plain text, Fossil might be your best choice. Literally no setup, comes with a wiki, supports hyperlinking and wiki-style page creation, and you can use the minimalist wiki syntax described here: https://fossil-scm.org/home/wiki_rules https://fossil-scm.org/home/wiki_rules And you can create pages in a text editor and add them to the wiki at the command line if you want.

moehm 6y ago

I use notable[0], a desktop app, for this. My notes are in markdown (so pure text) and a hyperlink is just a [[file.md]]. [0] https://github.com/notable/notable https://github.com/notable/notable