draw.io VS CherryTree

I draw all of my diagrams in a free application called diagrams.net (formerly draw.io). When building critical path diagrams, I put each data flow in its own layer. I then add buttons in the key that toggle the visibility of the layer, making it easy to show/hide entire flows.

https://www.diagrams.net/ is your friend.

We use https://www.diagrams.net/ it's easy, works great, cross platform, and can be used stand alone, via their web site, or be integrated with Office365/Gsuite.

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Yes, though they're transitioning to https://www.diagrams.net/ because of problems with the .io domains.

I’d look into how draw.io/jgraph open sources. They are open source - not open contribution. Easy way for your team to allow people to do what you want without additional governance. Appreciate the open dialogue! Link: draw.io github

I'm looking at draw.io as an example. It has a web app. Open source. Saves to google drive automatically. Exactly the type of scope I want for this project. Not a fan of java though.

I am started using CherryTree. (There is a screenshot here.)

I wonder if an extensible editor (example: Atom) could do both of those things with Markdown files. Assuming by styling you mean things like being able to highlight and custom-style some text, even in a typically text-only view of a markdown file. It wouldn't be a big surprise if that could be done...somehow. Collapsible points ought to be doable for sure.

Personally I use other methods for styling within markdown, for example emoji, tags, link formatting with brackets (for things that are not really links), etc.

I also take any list that's longer than 8-10 items and break it up by category or reorganize it so it's less visually overwhelming.

Otherwise you may find it helpful to look into more rich-editor-style notetaking solutions like cherrytree or Notecase Pro. The latter is proprietary but I used it for years and was very happy with it. Good luck in your search.

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

https://www.notecasepro.com/

I'm kinda surprised no one mentioned cherrytree yet.

cherrytree

I use FocusWriter. It's a lightweight, full-screen app that does more than enough for a manuscript. I used to use Google Docs with Wavemaker, which has a lot of extra functions like cards and timelines, etc. Docs slowed down a lot with a lot of open windows or really long docs, however. And with WFH the sync isn't that important to me anymore. For notes lately I've been using CheeryTree. All these are free.

CherryTree for a general note-taking database. As an Application Packager I can't remember PowerShell scripts I wrote two weeks ago, so saving my recipes in here is priceless.

One I didn’t see that we use to share code snippets, SQL statements and other coding stuff with notes I CherryTree. We use this on our network drive and each of us can open it up and look at the code and notes that have been stored there. We use it the most for SQL statements that we don’t use often but if it wasn’t written down we would forget about it.

How do you keep track of/document everything? I have been using Cherry Tree. It is a fancy open source note taking program that lets you keep notes in a tree like structure.

In the past I used CherryTree because it facilitates hierarchical note taking. However it has several drawbacks: it allows you to embed images/figures, but it becomes very slow over time as the XML file it writes to becomes larger and larger. It also has some other issues, like lack of support for including code snippets and LaTEX, and pretty counter-intuitive interface and limited import-export options.