/tech/ - Technology

My zettelkasten was originally in org-roam with org-noter bibliographic notes linked to books.
This was nice but the arrangement was buggy; my computer science notes are all written like this.
org-noter is in fact no longer maintained so assume the bugs that were present have persisted.
Used a pandoc script not too long ago to convert everything over to Markdown for Obsidian.
Obsidian is a very clean program, and one enjoys using it, even the keybinds are decent.
Bonus points for this being usable on my phone when had no other means of taking notes.
However it won't run on my Linux box, and neither will the most obvious open-source alternative LogSeq.
Am presently looking into denote.el as a replacement, after translating my notes once again.
The author is know to have good taste when it comes to Emacs packages and to produce good stuff.

My notes are arranged into five folders: Bibliography, Project, Scratch Paper, Dairy, and Zettelkasten.
Each of these folders has an inbox folder for notes that are currently in an incomplete state.
Each note has its first line after the tittle containing tags started with a # sign, for ease of access.
The bibliography is composed of notes named after book titles and with sections names typically taken from the book.
The diary has notes in YYYY-MM-DD format, and its own separate hierarchy of tags to avoid polluting the namespace.

In all likelihood this will some of this will change due to the opinionated nature of denote.el in the very near future.
Seems that there will be (ideally Obsidian compatible) YAML instead of the # sign, with a large block for metadata in general.
Further all the note names would change to the denote format even if the titles remain largely unchanged.

I've tried implementing a zettelkasten-like system, but never really bothered writing a graphic implementation to use it as such. Picrel is the intendend backend, which tries to find every instance of a given path under $ZTLDIR. I don't even know what some of the options do anymore and there are many cryptic notes strewn along the filesystem, currently i mostly use it for saving passwords and text drafts.

>>29786
Part of growing up from being a script kiddie means realizing light mode genuinely is easier to read. I recommend black text on a cream background though.

>>29786
lol, did at some point realize was staring at a lamp regardless of what color the pixels were so just turn down the brightness a ton. basically if you're monitors not really bad (can't set the brightness low enough, or bad color etc.) dark mode's of no advantage. lucky for you my Linux machine has a junk monitor so dark mode. picrel is obsidian.el which apparently exists and just works with obsidian/logseq stile notes.

I just have one big org file. swiper is fast enough that I don't have to worry about searching

>>29787
On e-ink screens light mode is easier to read, but on LED screens dark mode is easier to read. I would prefer if more devices had e-ink, the but the framerate issue is still being worked on.

I assume porky is now inserting ads in our brains because I started using obsidian literally yesterday, I set up nextcloud on my NAS but I had issues exposing it so I'm storing notes in onedrive because I refuse to pay obsidian 30 dollars for 1 measly GB. I dunno how to get past my ISP's CGNAT to expose nextcloud because I'd really like to link it through my private nextcloud instance.

>>29804
Dope

>>29804
I remember pushing my obsidian "vault"–I imagine they're trying to do the thing discord did where they make a word mean a thing it doesn't mean, like "server = guild"–to github for a while before microsoft bought github, I should make a notes repo in codeberg because I found out codeberg was pretty easy to push to because it doesn't bitch at you to phone factor authenticate.

>>29789
I used to do that too but now I use org-roam. It's very nice too

>>29756
I use Emacs, markdown and git. I should use org-mode instead because it's more powerful but I need to learn it first. I haven't much looked into it but it seems easy enough. I also use pen and paper. By the way, is there any good open-source notetaking apps for Android?

>>29868
logseq is available (both markdown and org compatible) only down side is the file navigation compared to obsidian.

>>29784
Is emacs worth it just to use denote? I currently use obsidian and I wish it was FOSS.

>>30136
Ended up using obsidian.el: https://github.com/licht1stein/obsidian.el so didn't have to convert my notes.
Also haven't taken many notes since switching, just one or two in my schmierblatt folder.
My guess would be that denote wouldn't be worth learning Emacs for alone, you'd probably have to have other reasons.
There are plenty of good reasons to learn Emacs though, especially if you have any interest in programming.
Logseq: https://logseq.com/ is the more obvious alternative.

Anyone tried https://helix-editor.com/ with https://github.com/artempyanykh/marksman ?
Have always been very interested in Kakoune-style editors.
And with Helix getting Scheme plugin support it seems like it could be a real contender.

>>30393
This would require a new keyboard for me.
Colemak (mod-dh) doesn't work well with modal text-editors.
So would need thumb-clusters with a special layer for arrow keys.

>>30394
Either this or just nuke my whole setup, and install Nix or something because there is constant pressure to install the most common platform possible in the interest of have fungible cogs, deskill if that's what's required.

>>30396
Seems like the nuclear option is winning out.
Completed the :tutor page, and a little more.
Replaced my keyboard at least temporarily with QWERTY.
Am considering buying a very expensive ortholinear keyboard with thumbclusters to make this work.
Haven't yet setup any LSPs or Treesitter, don't really have any projects to motivate it.

video: "Simple, Non-Commercial, Open Source Notes"

I don't like Obsidian because its celebrated by some of the most unholy neoliberals. Its also bloated and slow, and its internal wiki style links might not transfer to another system so notes might get linkrot if I switch to other platforms in the future (there is no Markdown specification? Typical redditor neoliberalism to just create ten different competing standards that will all eat shit in like ten years)

Pen and paper tbh

>>30412
How do you install that, I can't find it on AUR.

>>30413
You’ve got to compile it from a feather, ash mixed with water and some wood pulp.

I mean it might be packaged by someone somewhere and the version I’m compiling from is from 1687, so presumably if there is a packaged version it’s probably newer, but hey if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

>>30410
>Its also bloated and slow, and its internal wiki style links might not transfer to another system so notes might get linkrot if I switch to other platforms in the future
shouldn't the links be easy to replicate in another MD editor, i don't see what's so special about a folder of .md files pointing at each other

>>30409
>Haven't yet setup any LSPs or Treesitter, don't really have any projects to motivate it.
Was looking for an excuse, simply can't believe didn't configure this years ago.
It's so easy with Helix that even editing one file made it worth it to setup an LSP.