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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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