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I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
Dormouse:
Roam Research - a note-taking tool for networked thought:
https://roamresearch.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxOffM_tVHI
-panzer (May 30, 2020, 05:27 AM)
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I'd always dismissed Roam because it's online only.
I have 3 Internet links:
Fixed telephone line - slow when it works.
4G through aerial to router and through phones - faster but very intermittent signal.
Long distance WiFi - fast but can occasionally be down for days at a time.
The telephone line has been taken down by someone shooting it (presumably they missed something else), by a very high hay lorry, by a farmer ploughing it up, and by the power company laying a new cable. And frequently by other more common failures.
I can't trust anything that's online only.
OTOH, I've noticed that they have just said offline is coming, and if I'm considering Notion at all for anything, I ought at least to test out Roam, so I will do that.
Nevertheless remain determined not to be trapped in a database, and I'd want to see how the much-vaunted links work when they are exported to individual documents.
Dormouse:
I would agree that such a feature would be good for acceptance of either MarkDown or AsciiDoc as somewhat of a replacement of WordPad in Windows. Perhaps even Word itself.
-Shades (May 27, 2020, 12:44 AM)
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I'm starting to think 'Nail' and 'Head'.
Candidate 1 for setting the accepted standard for markdown - the plaintext community.
Candidate 2 - Microsoft introducing Markdown as an accepted format in Word.
Dormouse:
I'd always dismissed Roam because it's online only.
-Dormouse (May 30, 2020, 06:41 AM)
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And, of course, if it had local clients it might not have had to stop accepting new users.
Robust isn't a word that comes to mind when trying to evaluate basing a working system on it.
wraith808:
Plan D. Or maybe anyway. Writage. Writes Markdown and takes it into docx. Forces me to docx rather than rtf. Whatever - I'll go with the lingua franca. Convoluted workflow. But might act as lubricant in a workflow that's getting stuck. I've not tested this one yet.
-Dormouse (May 30, 2020, 02:30 AM)
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If you use writage, you might want to also take a look at Writing Outliner. It helps to organize docx into projects.
Dormouse:
If you use writage, you might want to also take a look at Writing Outliner. It helps to organize docx into projects.
-wraith808 (May 30, 2020, 03:55 PM)
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Let's hope it doesn't come to that after all my years advising people never to write in Word. Lingua franca is one thing but trapping myself within the borders is another.
But it is something to bear in mind.
When it comes to it, the majority of documents I'm sent to comment/review/edit come in docx format, though I know some were written in Google docs. Most of the rest come as links to Docs files.
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