Interesting to compare notes. I work with Jekyll and markdown too to generate static sites, with Github as the main collaboration platform. I use Typora as desktop WYSIWYG editor (https://typora.io/) and sometimes try things with Zettlr to organise writing (https://zettlr.com/) because it integrates nicely with Zotero for references and is more of wiki with a focus on (academic) writing.
However, Zim still is my notebook tool (and maybe a "rough draft/outline tool", but not my "document production tool") because it: - has integrated journaling and task management to keep a log and track follow-up actions - works really well for me to keep notes and files together - offers quick keyboard navigation for note-keeping. There's an example of how you can do static site generation from Zim sources on Gitlab (https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Host-a-website-on-GitLab-Pages). It's probably possible to do that with the new Github Actions too, to make the workflow for publishing/updating a notebook a simple "git push". With the Version plugin in Zim, saving a version to git is a simple ctrl-shift-s away, or you can let is save versions automatically. My content-keeping evolves as well, I'd say Zim is still an important part of the ecosystem :-) ~~Rolf. PS: there is also https://www.authorea.com as a sort of "Github for writing" but it doesn't have a desktop version for offline use. It lets you mix Latex, markdown, html, keep data files with the article, and has several academic publishing workflow features. On 04/09/2019 20:31, sreekar guddeti wrote: > Dear Shivam, > > My motivation to migrate from Zim to Jekyll > <https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll> actually involved a cascade of > events primarily starting from a desire to version control my PhD > thesis. As a result I fleeted along various tools like GitHub > <https://github.com/> (for versioning content), markdown > <https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#philosophy> (for > structuring content), Atom <https://atom.io/> (for editing content) > and Jekyll (for viewing content). The GCD (upside) of these tools > turned out to be *seamless platform (desktop/web) agnostic > content-keeping*. The LCM (downside) is the larger footprint compared > to the much leaner Zim. Since Zim restrains itself by being a *desktop > wiki*, I was more convinced to make the migration after reading this > <https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/issues/26> that > Zim lacks markdown support. After reading this > <https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2015/academic-markdown-and-citations.html> > post on an academic writing workflow using markdown with the support > of Pandoc <https://pandoc.org/> (for interdocument conversion), I > started the migration. Jekyll is only a part of the process. > Notwithstanding my perceived limitations of Zim, as a testimony, I > would like to share that Zim helped me learn a lot about web tools > (like wiki functioning, html, thrill of creating your own site with > fivethirtyeight theme :D (I still use it for my site > <https://baalkikhaal.github.io/>)), content-keeping (like interlinking > notebooks), API usage (my first serious foray into reading source > codes was through Zim. I managed to extend Zim's functionality, along > with some web scraping Python modules, to setup up a Mendeley like > interface of many-to-many mappings between Authors, Titles and Years :D). > On a philosophical note, *Zim is but a bead in the process of > evolution of content-keeping*. It is neither the beginning nor the > end. Its a long way to go where the GCD equals the LCM (the ultimate > non duality) ;). > > PS: I will check out the aforementioned tools -- Nikola, org-mode. > > sincerely yours, > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 8:49 PM Chuck Esterbrook > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Shivam, > > What the "something better than Zim" look like? Just curious. > > -Chuck > > > > -- > Sreekar Guddeti, > Spintronics and Thin Film Magnetism Lab, > Physics Department, > IISc Bangalore, > India.
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