Zim
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Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type. Creating a new page is easy by either clicking on the "Create new note"...
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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DavidBoissevain added Zim as alternative to Fyka Notes
allenu added Zim as alternative to Understory: Zettelkasten NotesFast, no markdown to screw characters/formatting, offline and requires HI instead of AI, actual wysiwyg, does what it should with no fuzz or requiring 100's of plugins, the downside is gtk which is ugly anywhere.
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If you would like to sync your Zim wiki database between computers, but don't want to have the plain text version synced (e.g. because of Dropbox/GoogleDrive/OneDrive/Box privacy concerns), you can always save your Zim database file in an encrypted Vault using the excellent open source and cross-platform app Cryptomator.
Otherwise, you can sync using Spideroak, Tresorit, or pCloud's encrypted folder. All of these are end-to-end encrypted.
An additional benefit of using Cryptomator is that you can close Zim, lock the vault in Cryptomator and other users on the same computer won't be able to open or access your Zim database contents.
This solution should be included on the Zim FAQ page, which says that you can't have encryption. This is an easy and convenient solution.
Please send a mail to the devs, this is indeed a very good idea! Thank you for the report!
The best note-taking app for Linux in terms of features... but it doesn't use markdown. Seriously, I am so used to markdown that I even use it on paper, so any software that does not offer such a basic feature is totally unusable for me. :(
Fast, no markdown to screw characters/formatting, offline and requires HI instead of AI, actual wysiwyg, does what it should with no fuzz or requiring 100's of plugins, the downside is gtk which is ugly anywhere.
I like Zim because of its small size window for note-taking while reading
Zim is a really good app to store notes, data, to do, knowledge and more. It is open-source and there are a lot of plugins to extend Zim, there are options for customizing it's look and it is really comfortable to use.
Doesn't bring in webpage hyperlinks like CherryTree and Obsidian does. No text colors. You could use it as a ToDo Manager since it does make checkboxes easy, but it's not really set up like that with drag/drop calendar functionality like
Elisi: Digital Bullet Journal Installing plug-ins is an effort. To install plugins for Zim on Windows, you should create a plugins folder in %APPDATA%/zim/data/zim/plugins/ etc
Zim is a good way of organizing and accessing the piles of useful and often referenced information in my life.