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I switched to Howm about a year ago (after trying and actively using dozens of other PKM systems), and it's by far the best I've come across. The whole design

I switched to Howm about a year ago (after trying and actively using dozens of other PKM systems), and it's by far the best I've come across. The whole design is well thought out, consistent and not created with the aim of marketing, but because it has served the creator well with his way of working (and surprisingly the philosophy applies to many of us). Japanese “engineering” at its best, so to speak. As Howm has become such an important part of my everyday digital life, I will certainly write my own blog article about it one day. Until then, I can recommend the blog entry by Leah Neukirchen in addition to the manual linked here: https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2022/03/note-taking-in-emacs-with-howm.html https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2022/03/note-taking-...

gwern 2y ago
The Neukirchen link would be a much better HN submission than OP.
- artsi0m 2y ago
  Nope, it suggest to use howm with markdown only, while when using emacs prop-line feature, you can use it with any markup.
  - gwern 2y ago
    So, because you disagree with one nitpicky detail, you believe a blog post laying out the history and features and uses of howm is inferior to a landing page which contains nothing but 2 links, which themselves contain nothing useful except perhaps 3 or 4 links deep there might finally be something which explains to a HNer what howm is and why they might ever care about it? Nope.
    - artsi0m 2y ago
      Sorry, of course no. But there is much better introduction blog posts on this topic in my opinion. I liked this one: https://baty.blog/2024/03/the-emacs-howm-package-for-notes https://baty.blog/2024/03/the-emacs-howm-package-for-notes
  - viberations 2y ago
    artsi0m, is there a reason to use prop-line, when howm already supports org by adding a hook to it? the reason I'm asking is I've been trying to make org-mode automatically work in howm preview buffer howmC, but it still displays as plain text until I hit RET on the note... was wondering if you maybe found a way around it via prop-line somehow? I've seen your github, where you mention the "# -- mode: org --", but whether I use that or not in .org files - makes no difference to preview buffer
setopt 2y ago
> because it has served the creator well with his way of working (and surprisingly the philosophy applies to many of us). Japanese “engineering” at its best, so to speak. Indeed. I read that the Howm author, Prof. Kazuyuki Hiraoka, disliked the tediousness of manually organizing notes (folders, tags, etc.), and wanted to make a somewhat “self-organizing” system where we can work lazily yet remain organized. He called it lazy, I call it efficient :) > As Howm has become such an important part of my everyday digital life, I will certainly write my own blog article about it one day. I would love to read more about other people’s Howm workflows. Currently, there’s still very few sources about this in English.

gwern 2y ago

The Neukirchen link would be a much better HN submission than OP.

artsi0m 2y ago
Nope, it suggest to use howm with markdown only, while when using emacs prop-line feature, you can use it with any markup.
- gwern 2y ago
  So, because you disagree with one nitpicky detail, you believe a blog post laying out the history and features and uses of howm is inferior to a landing page which contains nothing but 2 links, which themselves contain nothing useful except perhaps 3 or 4 links deep there might finally be something which explains to a HNer what howm is and why they might ever care about it? Nope.
  - artsi0m 2y ago
    Sorry, of course no. But there is much better introduction blog posts on this topic in my opinion. I liked this one: https://baty.blog/2024/03/the-emacs-howm-package-for-notes https://baty.blog/2024/03/the-emacs-howm-package-for-notes
- viberations 2y ago
  artsi0m, is there a reason to use prop-line, when howm already supports org by adding a hook to it? the reason I'm asking is I've been trying to make org-mode automatically work in howm preview buffer howmC, but it still displays as plain text until I hit RET on the note... was wondering if you maybe found a way around it via prop-line somehow? I've seen your github, where you mention the "# -- mode: org --", but whether I use that or not in .org files - makes no difference to preview buffer

setopt 2y ago

> because it has served the creator well with his way of working (and surprisingly the philosophy applies to many of us). Japanese “engineering” at its best, so to speak. Indeed. I read that the Howm author, Prof. Kazuyuki Hiraoka, disliked the tediousness of manually organizing notes (folders, tags, etc.), and wanted to make a somewhat “self-organizing” system where we can work lazily yet remain organized. He called it lazy, I call it efficient :) > As Howm has become such an important part of my everyday digital life, I will certainly write my own blog article about it one day. I would love to read more about other people’s Howm workflows. Currently, there’s still very few sources about this in English.