It's a product, not a service (they do offer their own paid syncing service though) I mentioned this in another subthread, but have you checked out Obsidian ? I haven't found a good fit yet, but I haven't explored the entire space. Tl dr: git + markdown data model with a bunch of bookkeeping, indexing, and tooling on the side This is a whole set of concerns all on its own. Images and media can be uploaded to a secondary service that handles indexing, hosting, backups, and thumbnail generation. Indexes and links should update as a post commit hook or async job Despite all of the ancillary indices and support mechanisms, it must remain CLI/vim editing friendly. Bonus if statically rendered snapshots are supported. Publish to a public or private website. Sync over git / github with easy diff fixing Less important, but also enforces that git, files, and a simple set of indices are the core data model. It should also support editing from the browser and saving back to git. Server + browser interface (mobile friendly). When pages are updated and their tags change, the system automatically handles the bookkeeping. These get indexed and can be bulk managed. Bonus if it supports hierarchical categories. Multiple tags / categories can be added to any page. If a page is renamed, all hyperlinks to it must automatically update. Hyperlinks to articles that show up red if the page doesn't exist (yet). Explorable and manageable on the filesystem. Backed primarily by git and plaintext files, not a database. These are the features I'd like in a wiki / personal knowledge engine: too i suppose (you're just drafting notes on the road and saving them up to someone e lse's server/cloud). Also, if you are not an adherent to open source software, my workflow can also be used via dropbox, box.com, onedrive, etc. so you are not stuck only with the nextcloud notes app. If you use nextcloud, you could also use other text editors on mobile phone like joplin, qOwnNotes, etc. Any headaches in managing my own nextcloud instance (and just like managing any of your own infrastructure, there are always costs), are outweighed by all the features that i legitimately use/benefit from nextcloud. Side note: i use nextcloud for general file synching, rss/feed reading, and other functions.so it was not setup only/specifically for notes.the note taking just came along as an extra benefit. I do lack some advanced features that zim wiki would bring, like linkages, some color formatting, styles.but for my workflow i found them not to be ultra necessary anyway. For actually synching and drafting of the text/note files, i have the nextcloud mobile app as well as the nextcloud notes app on my phone ( ).so now i can jot down notes anywhere that i carry my phone. I draft conventional old text files (though i do use markdown).and save the files in a nextcloud folder to enable sync anywhere. My intent was for family (only 3 people) and i to use it.but honestly, most of the time it is only me. I actually have my own little nextcloud instance running on a $5/month digital ocean virtual private server. I have ones for all kinds of things, like interviewing, 1-1s, and architecture design outline. I could also export to Markdown if I ever wanted to migrate. The syntax feels a little strange to me but I rarely need to edit raw files. But once you get streamlined it just works. Takes a little configuration out of the box to get just right, system dependencies, links opening in right browser, plugins, shortcuts, fonts. Pasting code will be garbled or auto-create tags unless you use the source view plugin or paste verbatim. There are a few quirks I've gotten used to over the years though: Love that it's just text files so I can manually edit them, version control, sync in private cloud service, etc. It's also my GTD system with tasks plugin. I use quick notes and journal shortcuts many times a day to quickly jot down a followup note/idea/question in meetings. Been using it for years for private offline note-taking for work. There are a lot of fancier note taking tools but I keep going back to Zim.
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