I use Zim also for both work and home-related notebooks. For about a year now.
Like Alexey, I use a source control system to share my notebooks across computers. I use Mercurial. I tried the plugin, but it didn't work for me. So I use Mercurial outside the Zim app, on Windows. When I recommend Zim to people, they mention Evernote. I've tried Evernote, and I don't like it, mainly because it's not *trivial* and *fast *to create links between pages. Evernote is about creating an outline. Zim is not. It gives you the *Index* for free, which looks like an outline, but it isn't an outline because you can't reorder it--and that's good and right! Zim has really fast search, but it's the really fast arbitrary linking that keeps me using it, especially since when I move or rename a page, the links get updated. What's most important to me about Zim is that any given item (page) serves two purposes: 1. It can contain content. 2. It can collect and order other content by reference (links). The backlinks pane is also awesome, as it tells you *in what collections *a given content item (page) falls. I've seen some suggestions for adding "tags" to Zim, but that seems redundant to me, as any page can act like a tag, and you can see a page's "tags" by looking at the backlinks. On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 4:02 PM Alexey <a1111...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been using Zim every day for about 7 years. At work and at home. The > only comparable alternative for me was TheBrain, but 1st they dropped Linux > support, and 2nd they use database to save the work. > > > For me the killer features of Zim are: plain text, LaTeX support, global > search through notebook (I'd like to have also a global search through all > notebooks option). > > > The plain text format feature helps me to use Git in a kind of abusive way > to share my notebooks across my computers. I have a bare repository > (server-side) to which I push the committed changes and from which I pull > them. > > > > On 23/06/2018 10:31, Gordon Zano wrote: > > How is that for a catchy title!? > > I've been using Zim almost every day (Mo-Fr) for about 5yrs. > I recently wondered if there was anything comparable out there and had a > look, but couldn't find anything that I preferred. > > A couple of candidates that are close are CherryTree and Tiddlywiki. > I gave TiddlyWiki about 30min of my time, but found it very non-intuitive > and gave up. I felt it was something for web developers! > > Confluence looks OK if you don't mind the big java footprint, but it's > designed for workgroups. > > What have you used before moving to Zim Wiki? > Ever tested other products since? > > -- > Gordon > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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