foam VS wiki.vim

Source: (1) A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode - Foam. https://foambubble.github.io/foam/. (2) A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode. https://github.com/foambubble/foam. (3) Loam - Visual Studio Marketplace. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ciceroisback.loam.

You should have a look at Foam: https://github.com/foambubble/foam

I started using Foam[0] a few years ago, but the more I used it, the more I dropped all the tedious bits, and it became nothing more than a big, evolving markdown repo.

When I switched from vscode (back) to vim, it has worked as well or better than it did before. I follow my own rules. I like the Zettelkasten idea of one idea per card, but if I put more related things in the same .md file, that's OK. I didn't like the flat directory structure, and so I have dirs organized by category. My /bar directory is inside my /cooking directory, and for whatever reason, that makes sense to me. Ripgrep doesn't care, and I always find what I'm looking for.

This markdown hierarchy, that still lives in a repo called "foam", has become indispensable to me.

[0] https://github.com/foambubble/foam

Probably use foam https://github.com/foambubble/foam

So I switched to FOAM and it's just clean & organized markdown files in a git repo. Self host a code server instance and I can reference it without installing something to the work machine.

Recently I started to configure my digital garden. Foam is a good option, Hugo Doks, No Style Please, Git-Wiki, Researcher, Thinkspace, and other themes are good for zetteltasken pages.

I use foam and VSCode and regularly am wow'd with what I am having it do next. I feel I am still just getting started too.

I've wondered about using obsidian with foam as a web editing fallback.

Since the data store is markdown and can be synced with Git, you can already work with an Obsidian vault using Foam in VSCode. I do.

You do need to align some options in each, such as file naming, a header, a particular style of links, and ensure frontmatter behavior. All necessary settings exist.

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

https://github.com/foambubble/foam/issues/46

This supports basic static file and links functionality, not extended data tools etc., of course.

Shameless plug: there's also [wiki.vim](https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim/), which I believe is starting to be a real contender to Vimwiki.

Regardless: In my experience, Vim + wiki with some additional plugins for fast searching and navigation is a very good combo!

I've just released version 0.7 of wiki.vim. This is a minor release. For details, see the release notes.

There's really interesting discussion on wiki.vim's issue tracker which we had few years ago. I think it's worth advertising because there are many more details and ideas for notetaking systems: https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim/issues/101

You could use Markdown based notes with https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim/.

I found the discussion in #289 and wiki-ft.vim#14 pretty interesting. I've been using wiki-ft.vim because every markdown plugin seems to break in some way (broken conceal, broken table highlighting, no injections). I know wiki-ft is not great, but at least it's consistent.

There are also other improvements and bug fixes as outlined in the release notes.

Plug: https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim

I started off with VimWiki, but now use wiki.vim. You won’t regret it if you do the same. The developer is a very nice guy.

Perhaps you might also consider wiki.vim combined with regular Markdown and Pandoc? I've written a possibly interesting guide on talking notes here.

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