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Thank you! I was looking into doing something like this myself, but hadn't taken much effort yet to figure it out. Backstory: I've been using Joplin as my prim

Thank you! I was looking into doing something like this myself, but hadn't taken much effort yet to figure it out. Backstory: I've been using Joplin as my primary note taking system / personal information manager for a few years. While I'm generally happy with it, I do wish I could just use the filesystem itself rather than an abstraction layer on top of it, as I'd love to be able to perform bulk operations using standard *nix tools, and perform versioning with git. Since I'm using Hugo for my personal homepage and looking to use it with a few other projects, I find myself doing a lot of copypasta between when an idea becomes enough of a "thing" to warrant becoming a post or page. I think something like this could help me bridge that gap.

dizhn 3y ago
I looked at every note taking app out there and finally decided to just write arbitrary text files and sync them with Syncthing. I am using the Kate editor on a Linux for this. (I don't use it for anything else) My requirements was that it had a search interface that can go into directories and that it displays a simple directory/file view. It does both great. On Android I use a similarly capable simple app called Markor which gives me a view into the exact same directory tree. Markor also has a good search. It would really be hard to convince me to use any proprietary format for notes now.
- justarobert 3y ago
  What do you use, if anything, for linking between your notes? I'd ideally like to move to just plain markdown/text files, but being able to link notes together seems like an essential feature. Vimwiki seems to have support for linking and navigating between notes within markdown, but then I don't think Markor would be able to handle them, and it doesn't seem like there's any automated way to update references if a link is moved. I've considered writing some small scripts to automate the gaps, but then it starts to feel like I'm just designing another note app.
  - dizhn 3y ago
    Frankly I haven't even thought about linking. I am a very light user. Though since markdown supports links and both editors support markdown, there might be a way. I literally just write notes then find them mostly by search even though I do have a basic directory structure and sensible file names.
incanus77 3y ago
Exactly. I'm a huge fan of CLI tools for text/data management as well, so I figured I was future-proofing myself a little by keeping things in Markdown files.

dizhn 3y ago

I looked at every note taking app out there and finally decided to just write arbitrary text files and sync them with Syncthing. I am using the Kate editor on a Linux for this. (I don't use it for anything else) My requirements was that it had a search interface that can go into directories and that it displays a simple directory/file view. It does both great. On Android I use a similarly capable simple app called Markor which gives me a view into the exact same directory tree. Markor also has a good search. It would really be hard to convince me to use any proprietary format for notes now.

justarobert 3y ago
What do you use, if anything, for linking between your notes? I'd ideally like to move to just plain markdown/text files, but being able to link notes together seems like an essential feature. Vimwiki seems to have support for linking and navigating between notes within markdown, but then I don't think Markor would be able to handle them, and it doesn't seem like there's any automated way to update references if a link is moved. I've considered writing some small scripts to automate the gaps, but then it starts to feel like I'm just designing another note app.
- dizhn 3y ago
  Frankly I haven't even thought about linking. I am a very light user. Though since markdown supports links and both editors support markdown, there might be a way. I literally just write notes then find them mostly by search even though I do have a basic directory structure and sensible file names.

incanus77 3y ago

Exactly. I'm a huge fan of CLI tools for text/data management as well, so I figured I was future-proofing myself a little by keeping things in Markdown files.