Hi, The closest alternative to Zim is Zotero/Juris-M. I use Zotero for collating reading material. Nothing beats Zim Wiki for its ease of use and reliability. Not to mention the plugins + LaTeX. Zotero/Juris-M works slightly differently, with excellent integration with the web browser, and indexing of all attachments. CherryTree comes second to me as a Zim alternative. It has a useful import option for Zim (doesn't work for attachments however). It has rich formatting options, include internal referencing. It saves everything as a database. I do not use CherryTree as reliability was my concern, something which Zim's plaintext nature renders non-existent.
> Hello list! > Before zim, I used keepnote, but its development stoped some years ago. > For me zim is perfect! > > ср, 19 дек. 2018 г., 1:14 John Paquette [email protected]: > > > I use Zim also for both work and home-related notebooks. For about a year > > now. > > > > Like Alexey, I use a source control system to share my notebooks across > > computers. I use Mercurial. I tried the plugin, but it didn't work for me. > > So I use Mercurial outside the Zim app, on Windows. > > > > When I recommend Zim to people, they mention Evernote. I've tried > > Evernote, and I don't like it, mainly because it's not *trivial* and > > *fast *to create links between pages. Evernote is about creating an > > outline. Zim is not. It gives you the *Index* for free, which looks like > > an outline, but it isn't an outline because you can't reorder it--and > > that's good and right! > > > > Zim has really fast search, but it's the really fast arbitrary linking > > that keeps me using it, especially since when I move or rename a page, the > > links get updated. > > > > What's most important to me about Zim is that any given item (page) serves > > two purposes: > > > > 1. It can contain content. > > 2. It can collect and order other content by reference (links). > > > > The backlinks pane is also awesome, as it tells you *in what collections *a > > given content item (page) falls. > > > > I've seen some suggestions for adding "tags" to Zim, but that seems > > redundant to me, as any page can act like a tag, and you can see a page's > > "tags" by looking at the backlinks. > > > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 4:02 PM Alexey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I've been using Zim every day for about 7 years. At work and at home. The > >> only comparable alternative for me was TheBrain, but 1st they dropped Linux > >> support, and 2nd they use database to save the work. > >> > >> > >> For me the killer features of Zim are: plain text, LaTeX support, global > >> search through notebook (I'd like to have also a global search through all > >> notebooks option). > >> > >> > >> The plain text format feature helps me to use Git in a kind of abusive > >> way to share my notebooks across my computers. I have a bare repository > >> (server-side) to which I push the committed changes and from which I pull > >> them. > >> > >> > >> > >> On 23/06/2018 10:31, Gordon Zano wrote: > >> > >> How is that for a catchy title!? > >> > >> I've been using Zim almost every day (Mo-Fr) for about 5yrs. > >> I recently wondered if there was anything comparable out there and had a > >> look, but couldn't find anything that I preferred. > >> > >> A couple of candidates that are close are CherryTree and Tiddlywiki. > >> I gave TiddlyWiki about 30min of my time, but found it very non-intuitive > >> and gave up. I felt it was something for web developers! > >> > >> Confluence looks OK if you don't mind the big java footprint, but it's > >> designed for workgroups. > >> > >> What have you used before moving to Zim Wiki? > >> Ever tested other products since? > >> > >> -- > >> Gordon > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Regards _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
