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I use zim wiki for desktop wiki / knowledge base for my personal stuff. The biggest hurdle I have had with any wiki or knowledge base stuff is to actively using

I use zim wiki for desktop wiki / knowledge base for my personal stuff. The biggest hurdle I have had with any wiki or knowledge base stuff is to actively using it and improving it. I find myself adding stuff in bursts and then not using it for weeks. https://zim-wiki.org/ https://zim-wiki.org/

hales 4y ago
I really liked Zim many years ago and used it quite a bit for personal note taking, but its lack of tables really annoyed me. I love tables with a passion. (On that note: when you add table support to a markup language PLEASE support newlines and paragraphs inside table cells. Don't assume that all tables are spreadsheets with only a small amount of text per cell. Some of us live in tables like high-rise apartments, eg bug tracking, school note taking & image stacking in cells.)
- account-5 4y ago
  Zim does support tables and has support for newlines in cells, but they are basic, no markup, limited manipulation. If it's non-numeric data and needs to be in tables the best program I've found is treesheets. Absolutely brilliant program.
  - hales 4y ago
    Ahah, I found the tables! You have to go into Zim's settings and enable them as an addon in there. Ty, I thought there was no support whatsoever (other than putting pictures of tables in https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Create-a-table-using-LibreOffice%2C-OpenOffice-or-Excel https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Create-a-t... ). Indeed it still seems a bit limited. Nothing like Firefox's in-built table editor used to be (this is the one in Thunderbird, which is quite nice). I wish they hadn't removed that feature :| Treesheets is a beautiful program, but I'm too much of a pen-and-paper + plaintext notes person to appreciate it properly.
qbasic_forever 4y ago
Yeah they can quickly turn into the junk drawer in your kitchen. Things go in there to never be found again.

hales 4y ago

I really liked Zim many years ago and used it quite a bit for personal note taking, but its lack of tables really annoyed me. I love tables with a passion. (On that note: when you add table support to a markup language PLEASE support newlines and paragraphs inside table cells. Don't assume that all tables are spreadsheets with only a small amount of text per cell. Some of us live in tables like high-rise apartments, eg bug tracking, school note taking & image stacking in cells.)

account-5 4y ago
Zim does support tables and has support for newlines in cells, but they are basic, no markup, limited manipulation. If it's non-numeric data and needs to be in tables the best program I've found is treesheets. Absolutely brilliant program.
- hales 4y ago
  Ahah, I found the tables! You have to go into Zim's settings and enable them as an addon in there. Ty, I thought there was no support whatsoever (other than putting pictures of tables in https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Create-a-table-using-LibreOffice%2C-OpenOffice-or-Excel https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Create-a-t... ). Indeed it still seems a bit limited. Nothing like Firefox's in-built table editor used to be (this is the one in Thunderbird, which is quite nice). I wish they hadn't removed that feature :| Treesheets is a beautiful program, but I'm too much of a pen-and-paper + plaintext notes person to appreciate it properly.

qbasic_forever 4y ago

Yeah they can quickly turn into the junk drawer in your kitchen. Things go in there to never be found again.