What do you use for your personal notes/documentation?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/sysadmin

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  • obsidian-releases

    Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  • At that point why not use Obsidian since that’s just MD.

  • yana

    Powerful note-taking app with nested documents, full-text search, rich-text editor, code snippet editor and more

  • I built a notetaking desktop app myself a couple of years ago that I commonly use: https://yana.js.org/ (source code at https://github.com/lukasbach/yana)

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • notable

    The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.

  • I've recently also looked at all of the alternatives because I too wanted to get away from OneNote and I ended up on "Notable" (https://github.com/notable/notable)

  • TiddlyWiki

    A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.

  • Tiddlywiki

  • Docusaurus

    Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

  • Docusaurus for document and notes, easy to setup on GitHub https://steelywing.github.io/note/

  • github-orgmode-tests

    This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

  • No love for org mode?

  • vimwiki

    Personal Wiki for Vim

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • Trac

    Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects (mirror)

  • For my documentation : Trac

  • notes

    ✎ Distraction-free notes and writing (by nextcloud)

  • For my notes : Emacs + Nextcloud (with the Notes plugin)

  • BookStack

    A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

  • I setup a bookstack server which we use for our documentation.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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