Looking for guidance on simplifying my note-taking setup into the terminal

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  • nb

    CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

  • I found xwmx's `nb` which I quite like for its git remote integration and tools, but I find it somewhat clunky to interact with. On top of this, I am relatively inexperienced with vim, would like to keep my config very simple, and have no idea how to integrate `nb` with vim directly.

  • shell-velocity

    A portable notational velocity for your shell written in POSIX shell.

  • I really love the look of shell-velocity, it is almost exactly what I want. However, I again do not know how I would call it directly inside vim, nor does it have quite the same convenience of automatically syncing with a remote if I need to quickly use my notes across different machines.

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  • notational-fzf-vim

    Notational velocity for vim.

  • notational-fzf-vim is similar to shell-velocity and also looks pretty good, but is now unmaintained and I do not have the knowledge to maintain it myself should something break. Has the same lack of automatic git syncing.

  • git-auto-sync

    Automatically Sync Git Repos

  • meudeus

    A skim-based `*.md` explore and surf tool

  • Hi, i'm an author of https://github.com/dj8yfo/meudeus tool . I created it as a drop-in replacement of https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk for myself in personal workflow. zk, despite working great as an lsp, always let me wondering where i'm at, because the structure of different md files is different. mds has no journal, as i found out that myself was a too shortlived living thing to reread the history of what i was doing a month ago. It doesn't require editor plugins or being used as an lsp, you'd only require to replace helix with vim/nvim in config Cheers.

  • zk-nvim

    Neovim extension for zk

  • Hi, i'm an author of https://github.com/dj8yfo/meudeus tool . I created it as a drop-in replacement of https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk for myself in personal workflow. zk, despite working great as an lsp, always let me wondering where i'm at, because the structure of different md files is different. mds has no journal, as i found out that myself was a too shortlived living thing to reread the history of what i was doing a month ago. It doesn't require editor plugins or being used as an lsp, you'd only require to replace helix with vim/nvim in config Cheers.

  • zk

    A plain text note-taking assistant

  • For now, with a couple aliases wrapping nb as I try it out. I'm also planning to give https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk a shot, it looks to be almost exactly what I'm looking for an offers a vim plugin to boot.

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  • bookies

  • Ok, if you say you understand bash, you may feel interested in https://github.com/dj8yfo/bookies, which is just some gist of another guy around preview with sk + bat edited up a bit. sk is a copycat of fzf in rust, and from what i can say of viewing part of internals of it, is pretty robust. Anyway, cheers.

  • vim-zettel

    VimWiki addon for managing notes according to Zettelkasten method

  • Started using vim-zettel a while ago and it works pretty well, especially seeing as I need to link my notes. It uses vimwiki and fzf, and for git autosync you can use vimwiki-sync. :)

  • vimwiki

    Personal Wiki for Vim

  • Started using vim-zettel a while ago and it works pretty well, especially seeing as I need to link my notes. It uses vimwiki and fzf, and for git autosync you can use vimwiki-sync. :)

  • vimwiki-sync

    Automaticaly synchronize vimwiki at startup and exit using git

  • Started using vim-zettel a while ago and it works pretty well, especially seeing as I need to link my notes. It uses vimwiki and fzf, and for git autosync you can use vimwiki-sync. :)

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