submitted 2 days ago by daskye@lemm.ee to c/neovim@programming.dev

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I use Obsidian for Zettelkasten note-taking. Anybody have a system in (Neo)Vim that they use?

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[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

I have been preparing for this question.

https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/ is very good and very customisable while keeping consistent and open file file format that allows your notes to be easily stored and read by other apps.

For longer form notes https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/org-roam.nvim/blob/main/DOCS.org can also help while maintaining all the benefits mentioned above.

There is also https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg that is trying to create new file format and ecosystem around it. Seems cool, but a bit new imo.

[-] daskye@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

I wonder if I can just straight up import my obsidian vault and have it work

[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not very easy but not very hard either. Obsidian works with .md files they have close syntaxes to .org files that orgmode works with, but you will have to convert them.

I would also suggest searching for some neovim plugins working with .md files. That will allow you to directly import your files. Something like this maybe?

[-] notabot@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

If you're used to markdown in Obsidian, you could look at vimwiki to use a similar syntax in vim. I find it works fairly nicely for standard notetaking, and is a lot faster to start than Obsidian.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

I like jakewvincent/mkdnflow.nvim for editing markdown, though tbh I've mostly just used it to check/uncheck todo lists.

[-] simon@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Wiki.vim https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim

It let's you create a wiki with links between pages.

Unlike obsidian, it doesn't put your personal data in the cloud.

Unlike the similarly named vimwiki it doesn't use a custom file format. It uses markdown. Although I think you can configure vimwiki to use markdown as well, but with reduced functionality of the plugin.