Comment by djhworld | Hacker News Reader

Comment by djhworld | Hacker News Reader

I've jumped around all over the place, I can never settle on a tool and it's really frustrating

I've been through

* evernote - slow and buggy UX, properietary format

* emacs org mode - good but you need buy in to org format, user experience across devices e.g. mobile not so good)

* quiver - pretty good, markdown format, but lacking android support

* git + markdown files - ok, but a bit finicky, again annoying across devices

* joplin - pretty good, has mobile support, has markdown etc

* nVault - lightning fast, no mobile support

I saw a thread on HN recently talking about a similar topic and someone mentioned TiddlyWiki which seems promising, I'll investigate it soon, although I suspect I'll probably jump when the next thing comes along.

Luckily most of my 'wiki' is in markdown format so it's fairly portable, I just want something that

* is easily accessible across devices

* supports markdown (+ rendering)

* supports inline LaTeX (e.g. $$x = 5 + y$$)

* renderer should support inline images

* good search capability

I think Dynalist would tick all the boxes for you apart from in-line images.

you can add images but at the moment you need to hover over the link to view them unfortunately. (although I think somebody made a browser extension that makes the images load in view, but then that won't work on the mobile app version. their web app is fairly useable in a mobile browser though)

I just wrote a spiel about Dynalist in another comment if you want to word search for that

You could look at MediWiki (same software Wikipedia uses). GitHub flavored markdown can be installed, I know because I've done it. I have it installed on my own domain, therefore accessible across devices...you'll have to look at LaTeX and images, but I'm fairly sure it can be done. Search capability is great!

Devonthink supports cross-device, has okay UI, excellent organizational tools, scripting capability, external opening support, a Web version, excellent search, and excellent "Classify" support that can automatically organize documents.

My issue with TiddlyWiki was that it always get saved as new file when you save it.

"was" - so I assume it is now resolved ?

I use it myself, and file is "overwritten" when saved. (as expected)

I have local file that I open in firefox, and edit. Every so often I commit it to git.

If you open from non-local URL - it can not be "saved" - which is what you may have encountered ?

https://wiki.desipenguin.com/#2019.10.11

By Was, I meant when I was using it, or tried it. I am pretty much all neck deep in Google verse, so use only Chrome. & this my issue was not resolved until that time.

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