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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
« on: March 07, 2024, 06:55 PM »
glad to see this thread still going strong.
some updates on my usage and software opinions:
I actually use multiple desktop applications in a non-dedicated way, meaning I'm not committed to either, and just open and edit files for no particular reason. Sometimes, just to open one project in one, and another in something else. I use obsidian, tangent, vscode mostly. this is all primarily markdown stuff. For catch all archival purposes, I put everything in trilium because it is very full featured and has selfhosting option. Now recently, trilium developer said he will only to minor maintenance releases, no more adding major features, but still plans to maintain it indefinitely.
For work purposes when i need to collaborate with less techy people, i've started using Notion.
For static generated sites, I first started using emanote, but then moved to Docusaurus. I think Docusaurus is beautiful.
I haven't gotten good at atomicity type writing yet, but do plan on going more in that direction as it will help in putting together longer form writings more easily.
I do not think we need to stick so strictly to the original paper based zettel method with the numbers and stuff because the software and yaml covers that pretty well now, and I found it more of a hindrance at this point. So i've loosened up on that a lot.
some updates on my usage and software opinions:
I actually use multiple desktop applications in a non-dedicated way, meaning I'm not committed to either, and just open and edit files for no particular reason. Sometimes, just to open one project in one, and another in something else. I use obsidian, tangent, vscode mostly. this is all primarily markdown stuff. For catch all archival purposes, I put everything in trilium because it is very full featured and has selfhosting option. Now recently, trilium developer said he will only to minor maintenance releases, no more adding major features, but still plans to maintain it indefinitely.
For work purposes when i need to collaborate with less techy people, i've started using Notion.
For static generated sites, I first started using emanote, but then moved to Docusaurus. I think Docusaurus is beautiful.
I haven't gotten good at atomicity type writing yet, but do plan on going more in that direction as it will help in putting together longer form writings more easily.
I do not think we need to stick so strictly to the original paper based zettel method with the numbers and stuff because the software and yaml covers that pretty well now, and I found it more of a hindrance at this point. So i've loosened up on that a lot.