Is Vim(wiki) the best alternative to Wiki/Zettelkasten apps like Obsidian or Roam?

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  • img-paste.vim

    paste image to markdown

  • I seem to recall that I've read about a method to achieve this functionality in Vim - and indeed a quick search shows that there's at least one plugin to do just that.

  • pandoc

    Universal markup converter

  • FWIW, Pandoc pairs pretty nicely with Vim. When I was using VimWiki, I had a Rakefile that would compile all my markdown notes into HTML based on a Bootstrap template file.

  • WorkOS

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  • md-graph

    Perform graph operations on a collection of interlinked Markdown files (or Obsidian, VimWiki, Zettlr, or Neuron)

  • I still have Obsidian installed because the graph view is second to none. I also missed the backlinks/subgraph features (and not crazy about VimWiki) so I created my own tool for it, md-graph (a little rough around the edges but works pretty well for what it is.)

  • doomemacs

    An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker

  • It is. Emacs learning curve is steep but there is evil mode for vim keybindings. Check out Doom Emacs for some sane default configuration.

  • zk-nvim

    Neovim extension for zk

  • I use https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk-nvim , it’s been great :)

  • vim-zettel

    VimWiki addon for managing notes according to Zettelkasten method

  • Have you looked at the vim-zettel plugin? It's an add-on for vimwiki to give more Zettelkasten features.

  • telekasten.nvim

    A Neovim (lua) plugin for working with a markdown zettelkasten / wiki and mixing it with a journal, based on telescope.nvim

  • telekasten is excellent

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  • notational-fzf-vim

    Notational velocity for vim.

  • https://github.com/alok/notational-fzf-vim/issues/90 Weird issues but the plugin itself is simple and smart.

  • Zettlr

    Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

  • Check out https://www.zettlr.com/

  • mkdnflow.nvim

    Fluent navigation and management of markdown notebooks

  • Another plugin is mkdnflow.nvim. I guess it's nvim only though.

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