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[–] 28 points 5 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Some people tried to get me into Zed as well, and that was sure not a fun experience seeing how heavily pro-AI it was. I literally ended up just returning to the built-in Zed.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You can disable all AI stuff in Zed with a single disable_ai: true setting. Still an awesome editor without any of the AI.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
    1. That should be on by default.
    2. It has no features that Xed doesn't have that I use and takes up more system resources (it's noticeably slower).
    3. It's far more confusing in its design with the project-pane thing which keeps constantly closing between reboots, and it has no recent-files menu section, which I rely on a lot (and if there is a plugin for this, I shouldn't need a plugin for such a common feature).

    I've made my decision for the time being. I am aware of Zed and can always change in the future should the need arise, but Kate frankly looked better, anyway.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago

    Looks interesting, but chrome only is a showstopper

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Only works in chrome and currently doesn't have a self hosted version or something. I think it shouldn't be too hard to implement.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm starting to feel like a silverbullet.md shill because I post it so often these days...

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Nice, seems really legit, especially since it works offline. Thx for that.

    I've been trying to find a decent WYSIWYG android markdown editor (that's not just a webview wrapper), but none exist yet. This should work in the time being.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago* (8 children)

    There’s also Logseq. It’s got a little bit of a learning curve but can be a great outliner and notes app. https://github.com/logseq/logseq

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I tried logseq for a while but I couldn’t get over the fact that all ones were bulletpoints.

    I settled on obsidian with selfhosted live-sync and it’s been rock solid for a year now.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    i want to get back to logseq but … i wonder how it will work with my obsidian lib; it’s just dirs and files. with links. mostly just todo lists by project and some code snippets for reference.

    is logseq compatible?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Logseq leverages centrally hosted databases while obsidian works directly from files and directory structures. There should be a way to import individual files but I'm not sure if it will parse your entire vault.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

    Your life in plain .md files.

    Why not just, you know, actual plain .md files and your directory navigator and text editor of choice (often the ones that that already come with your Linux distro)? Or code editor if you want them together? Don't forget the terminal if you want to go even simpler. Always worked for me, I don't even use the formatted view half the time because *this* already conveys the same information as this in my mind. Hell throw a git repo in there and you have better version control than full office suites.

    I honestly think the fancy wrappers around Markdown files defeat the elegant minimalism of using Markdown in the first place. I've always found my favourite "feature" of Markdown is that you don't need to install anything.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I find these kinds of projects are neat, but if I'm being honest, I tend to just keep plain markdown files as well. The only thing I find that's missing with that is searchability. Once you get enough files, it can get unwieldy. Although, I've been playing around with just using a local model lately as the interface. You can throw opencode at a folder with the files, and even a small model can find stuff fairly competently there.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    How do you get a local model to search stuff on your local computer for you? I'd love this in an IDE to emulate the functionality of Copilot for simple issues!

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh that's the magic of tools like opencode, you run it in a folder and it acts as a harness for the model where it can interact with the filesystem. You could do the same with an IDE as well, making your own agentic harness is actually pretty straight forward. So you could make a plugin that talks to, say, ollama https://ampcode.com/notes/how-to-build-an-agent

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Cause the whole point is that you have a fancy wrapper???

    You're basically asking

    Why bother with an IDE? Why not just code in Notepad with no wrappers around it?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Okay but Zimwiki already exists.

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    Using a browser is definitely a no go for me. Lots of people are asking, why not just use vim instead of obsidian? Linking is important, I've been meaning to try neorg, I'll get there eventually. To me writing the notes is secondary to finding, exploring, and reading the notes. I find vim is better writing things than exploring things, probably just a skill issue but I don't really care.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I can't find cloud sync feature even tho they say it's supported.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    I am a weird one and use KDE's ghostwriter, I found it and just started using it on my linux desktop. I sync to my devices using KDE Connect, by file-sharing or clipboard sharing and use Quillpad on my phone, they all somehow work together.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Interesting alternative as a simpler version of Obsidian ... Shall try it out. Simple md files is good, and this should be quite fast as well !

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    the greatest strength of obsidian is the plugin eco-system. doesnt matter how good the alternative is to vanilla obsidian, it has to compete with the ecosystem

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Sproingle is an open source alternative to mipple
    it's literally on poob

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  • [+] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)
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