Evolving my note-taking processes

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

  • foam

    A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

    I use [Dendron](https://www.dendron.so) for this. You can add tags or links to any entry, and the targets of those links will have backlinks. There's a nice "daily note" mechanism as well.

    [Foam](https://github.com/foambubble/foam) seems very similar but I haven't personally tried it.

  • 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.

  • Trilium Notes

    Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

    Notesnook is not open source (you cannot self-host it, you must pay them). FWIW, Standard Notes is also very difficult to self host, though if you dig deep enough you can actually find the server and some outdated documentation.

    FWIW, I settled on https://github.com/zadam/trilium which is very bare-bones but fully open source and self-hostable.

  • awesome-knowledge-management

    A curated list of amazingly awesome articles, people, applications, software libraries and projects related to the knowledge management space

    If you enjoy sharing info around knowledge management I made a discord community "Awesome Knowledge Management"[1] and there is also Brett's awesome list for knowledge management[2] for more resources!

    [1] https://discord.gg/VsqazDhsES

    [2] https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-managemen...

  • If you enjoy sharing info around knowledge management I made a discord community "Awesome Knowledge Management"[1] and there is also Brett's awesome list for knowledge management[2] for more resources!

    [1] https://discord.gg/VsqazDhsES

    [2] https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-managemen...

  • notesnook

    A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

    [0] for over a year now. Truly phenomenal what the devs have done in such a short time.

    But I don't think any one note taking style or software would apply to 2 people. Everyone's thought process is so different. I tried doing the Zettlekasten but it didn't work out (for me). The worst problem with taking notes is finding them (and God knows all these tools don't make it easier). It's tragic to see that search is often last on the list.

    What I wish for is search like Google (when it was better than it is now) for my own notes - intelligent, fast, and predictable.

    [0] https://notesnook.com

  • notes.vim

    For anyone that likes to use markdown and neovim I've developed this plugin: https://gitlab.com/atomdmac/notes.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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