med VS zk

Here's another one with a very small footprint:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

It's the one I use every day. The executable on Windows is a little over a meg. It also works on Linux and Mac.

I fixed my editor so that it recognizes URLs, and underlines them. Clicking on one brings up a browser on that site. I should have done that 20 years ago.

No special syntax is required. It just works. I've since been adding URLs in comments all over my code, for references. It's marvelous.

It could be extended to recognize filename.jpg and filename.mp3 to display or play those files, too. Again with no special syntax whatsoever. It just works.

https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

I still use microEmacs, which floated around the intertoobs in the 1980s. Of course, I've modified it substantially over the years, most recently adding color syntax highlighting and Unicode.

D version:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

C version:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/me

The "extension language" is it's so easy to just add some code and recompile it, there's no point in adding an extension language.

I like microEmacs a lot because I can use it remotely over a tty interface.

Doing one yourself is fun. MicroEmacs drifted around NNTP in the 80s, and I snagged a copy and began modifying it to taste. I've been using it ever since. The latest version was ported to D:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

It's a very easy editor to understand and extend.

Guess I'll toot my horn slightly: I made a Zettlekasten-ish tool for the CLI a few years ago and have used it for my work notes (including daily TODO), project logs, and personal diary stuff ever since. At this point I've got a hierarchy of 114 notes, with some notes linked into multiple locations in the tree. The hardest part is trying to decide if you want a new note for a topic, or if it should fit into an existing one.

Maybe somebody might find it useful:

https://github.com/floren/zk

Everything is just files in a directory, so I use Syncthing to have access to it everywhere.

It's also got a thing that lets you associate files with a given note, but the tooling around that isn't very good yet. I've been slowly working on a client for the Acme text editor, and I've also wanted to make a proper Go GUI client.

(man I need to re-do the CLI with some library that does built-in help, because some commands like `zk orphans` [which finds notes that have no parents] aren't documented anywhere)

Wrote my own vaguely Zettelkasten-inspired system because I wanted something that works at the command line and followed my own idiosyncratic (or idiotic) preferences. The data lives in my keybase KBFS mount and I symlink it into my home directory.

You build up a hierarchy of notes, but you can also cross-link so a note appears in multiple places. You can also drop arbitrary files alongside any given note. I expand it occasionally as I need new features; most recently I added regular expression searching and a command to locate "orphaned" notes. It's at https://github.com/floren/zk which contains the Go library to interact with the files on disk, and a command-line tool which wraps the library.