Hi Gordon,
Thanks for sharing our setup. Sounds like Notesy is a useful app here, but
afraid I can't test it myself since I don't have an i* device. Looking for
similar Android apps myself.
I am planning adding markdown support to zim, so that might make your setup
even more useful. I would be interested to know Notesy deals with the file
layout in the folder - is it compatible with the way zim stores text files
in the folder, or different?
Regards,
Jaap
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Gordon gordon.z...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all I currently use Zim on Suse Linux 11 (SLED) and Windows 7 and it
works we'll, especially with Dropbox. The interlinking and search ability
is brilliant. Zim kills my old method of standalone pure text files, mixed
with web pages saved as .mht files.
I now have an iPad and trying to work out the best way to view and
optionally edit my Zim data. My requirements are: - have all my Zim files
available off-line, for speedy access, and for when there is no internet
connection (such as when on a plane or in a remote region) - file name
search - file content text search (the only way I can find that shred of
info I need)
Here are my findings
DROPBOX is the key for syncing, and there are many suggestions about
simply opening the Zim file with a text editor on the iPad. ISSUES: -
Interestingly the IOS version of Dropbox only downloads files as you try to
open them, unless you select the file as a Favourite. Selecting folder is
not supported! - There are plenty of great plain text editors too on the
iPad, but they do not all make a complete local sync of the dropbox folder
either, often you must select individual files to open/sync, which becomes
unworkable. Or they did no offer good search capabilities.
GOODREADER almost did it for me, as you can synchronise a complete Dropbox
folder locally, using a one way or two way sync. But it has a basic text
editor and it can't do full text search over a file system, only file name
search.
After countless hours of research, the best I can come up with is NOTESY,
which features: - full off-line sync of my Dropbox files, just like Dropbox
does on linux or Windows - fantastic search capabilities, of files or
content - mark down support
Before I commit to NOTESY, I was wondering how others are reading or
editing Zim files on ther iPad, is there a better way?
I also tested exporting to HTML, and it's good for browsing (using
GoodReader), but I couldn't search it.
WIKI *VIEWER* FOR ZIM After searching for Wiki viewers in the App Store,
there were dozens available to view Wikipedia. I couldn't help but think
how useful it would be to have a generic wiki (Zim) reader with search -
does such a thing exist?
-- Gordon
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