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Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS)

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Are you satisfied with your choice? What is something you wish your app had?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Handwriting to text support. I haven't found anything with this since OneNote. You'd think that in the interceding decade, someone would have made a FOSS equivalent. Especially now, with the rise of AI.

Writing things by hand is a big part of knowledge retention for a lot of people, but I also need to be able to search my notes. Text can be searched but typing doesn't help with memory, and handwriting helps with memory but can't be searched in the apps at my disposal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As a Samsung Note user, I'm right there with you. I jot down so, so many notes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I want the Holy Grail:

  • mobile support
  • offline first
  • 100% FOSS (even sync)
  • multiple devices
  • collaborative
  • backlinks

I use org-mode. Mobile sucks. No collaboration. :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As someone who hasn’t looked into plugins yet, Obsidian.md doesn’t have changing the color of the text in the same way I can change it on say, Microsoft Word or Google Docs. I can probably do something in CSS or HTML to let me change it at will, but it’s not built-in.

Also not too vital, so I’m letting it go. I’ll learn how to do it when I actually need it. I’m satisfied.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen recommendations for this around, plugin called "Highlightr"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I wish Bear had transclusion and pinned subtags. Otherwise very happy with the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wish Bear had transclusion and pinned subtags. Otherwise very happy with the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Bear is a beautiful app. Very simple but superb at what it does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@PsychrolutesMarcidus Not my current choice, but I used to love Notally for its simplicity. All I wished was to have a way to sync notes to a different device and open them on desktop. I had to switch unfortunately, but I managed to create a system where I would save notes as .md files.