draw.io VS CherryTree

Never heard of Backlight Gem, sounds like a flashlight up your ass... Use this, it's free: https://www.drawio.com/

Just wanted to mention this here. You don't need a PC with lots of resources these days. Anything that can run a browser can also be used to edit images, create graphics, or even resumes. I think with those tools, you could even use a crappy library PC as long as it has a modern browser running.

Protip: get draw.io if you want to edit that file. Or just use the online https://www.drawio.com/ (previously diagram.net?)

On work, I use mostly tools like Draw.io and some colleges more Excalidraw (looks more fancy but less powerful). Those are easy tools to create a diagram with existing extensions for VScode. This helps to create an editable diagram which can be saved as an image. I like to use to save my draw.io file as a *.drawio.png file. So I can open it with draw.io to edit and when viewing the file from a browser, you see the PNG image. In this case, I never forget to export the latest state into my docs.

We get asked sometimes to add features to support new kinds of exports, e.g. to create network diagrams or to integrate with Home Assistant. Some time ago, we made the Fing Desktop and Fingbox Local API free for everybody to play with their device data locally. No cloud involvement, only local secret authentication needed.

https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/discussions/3309 asked here too, is this broken?

See https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/wiki/Getting-Support for official routes to get support.

Check this: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio

Awesome! Next please add a collaborative/multiplayer mode ❤️ In every team you want to have the chance to work together on a flow diagram. Even draw.io does not support it until now, so if you get it working that would be huge news and a USP for Svelvet: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/1396

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.

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