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I can recommend Zim wiki which is a GTK+ desktop app that works as a personal wiki / notebook. Has a WYSIWYG editor and can export to different formats, it can even render the wiki as html and serve it. Also supports plugins for extra things like tables and charts if you wish. You can have separate notebooks for each project like home/work/etc. You can commit to git from the UI, have git hooks set to automatically push to a remote on every commit. Not fancy but very functional and pleasant to use. https://zim-wiki.org/

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Really love Zim wiki and have been using it for over a decade. Sadly, the move to py3 and gtk3 broke it for non-linux platforms. macOS how has a huge wealth of [reported] bugs that break common keyboard shortcuts at the OS level and introduced a lot of performance problems. This isn't the fault of Zim as these are all bugs from gtk3 where it seems like the priority for non-linux bugs is 0. Meanwhile, Windows no longer has a prepackaged installer as the maintainer stopped doing that post transition.

I've tried hacking my way around this but to no avail. It's gotten to the point that I've finally started seriously looking and testing alternatives. Nothing has come close to replicating the feature set and UI workflow.

There is a new installer for windows for the latest Zim version, it was announced last Tuesday, you can get it on the Zim wiki download page: https://zim-wiki.org/downloads/

That is awesome! Glad to see that this was finally addressed. That still leaves the macOS issues which I'll keep my fingers crossed for.

(I do realize that I'm an odd niche use case where I use all 3 platforms regularly (Linux, Apple, Windows) and it why it's been difficult to find a suitable replacement.)

Did the notes format change though? (Can one still use the old Windows package while syncthing notes with a Linux machine running newer ones?)

I like Zim Wiki but haven't used much though. Can you suggest a way to embed images with sync? I mean if you want add images to the text notes, how does it work?

My use case - I want to add images to the text and then export it in some kind of everyday format like html and send it to my friends. I sent it to my friend one of such but he was not able to see any images.

I've been using Zim for daily notes stashed to a Dropbox folder for many years.

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