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I have recently started to play around with the lightweight Emacs mode, "HOWM" which was written about 20 years ago by a Japanese author, who still maintains it today.
The howm-mode shows you a summary view, comprised of information (just the title/heading) from the (configurable) last 20 notes you have made. Everything goes under ~/howm/YYYY/MM e.g. ~/howm/2024/01 for notes I am making this month.
It has a simple way to enter schedule, todo, deadline, etc. which it shows just below the header that has single-key commands (s for case-insensitive searching, c to create a new note, etc.) for searching, navigation, new notes.
The genius of howm is that you can write and have very simple back and forward links to any file, URL, or tag, any kind of text etc., and you write "fragments" that is, whatever the smallest unit of text you want - it just needs a title plus anything else you want to add to it.
When you save the file, you hit Ctrl-C plus ",," and are back in the summary view.
So you have very small sized units/fragments, but due to the forward and back links and the ease of searching (which will collate in a temporary list, everything found), you can "create fragmentarily but view/search collectively" as the documentation puts it.
My next step is to author HOWM notes in AsciiDoc or Markdown format which can easily be fed (since each note is a separate text file) into a converter for fancier output.
Syncthing easily keeps things in sync between my desktop and laptop.
In the very best of FOSS tradition, someone else wrote up a full PDF manual, in English. https://github.com/Emacs101/howm-manual/blob/main/Howm_tutor...
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