Comments on: ZIM – A Desktop Wiki / Note Taking App [Linux, Windows]

By: ska

ska — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:08:27 +0000

Does this mean to say that keynote now works in Linux? That’s great news, as it was one of the programs that leaves me stuck to Windows. Tried Zim and Basketcase but:
1) I’ve got a lot of stuff on KeyNote and it’s a bugger to transfer to others;
2) They’re not the same in functionality.
3) KeyNote doesn’t work well with WINE on Linux (at least it didn’t on my machine with Ubuntu 8.10!)
4) Does anyone know of a replacement for RoughDraft for Linux? (http://www.salsbury.f2s.com/rd.htm)

By: Ram N

Ram N — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:30:23 +0000

This is one swell application. Iam glad I read this post.

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:28:29 +0000

I have been using Zim for about two years now and I love it. The developer is very open to new ideas and bug reports.

By: Haeja Franca

Haeja Franca — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:17:11 +0000

Are there any apps that combine the features of Notezilla + Rainlendar in one? I’m always on the look out for apps that offer more and are lightweight as compared to individual apps.

By: whitemamba

whitemamba — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:47:04 +0000

For windows users of course, cross platform solutions are much better, what is at the site you recommend is not very encouraging, maybe you could see if the source code can compile in Lazarus to run on Linux

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:29:29 +0000

Another great option for this kind of wiki note taking is Luminotes, a personal wiki notebook that you can either use online or as a desktop application.

By: Daniel Saunders

Daniel Saunders — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:43:19 +0000

I think Zim is great. I use it to take all my notes at college and it works a charm. I find that being able to use Wiki-like syntax for formatting is much easier than twisting my hands to do ctrl-i and the like.

The one feature I’d love to see would be a way to create tables. Currently, I have to make them manually by aligning things with tabs, but table markup would be great!

I’ve used tiddlywiki for things in the past as well, and it too is great. The big difference for my usage is the way that Zim is constantly saving the file, whereas with tiddlywiki you need to close the tiddler to force a save. Also, just being able to press Ctrl-r to get all your formatting displayed in Zim is much nicer than having to stop editing in tiddlywiki and then look over the displayed tiddler.

By: pardus

pardus — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:25:40 +0000

The EquationEditor plugin uses latex. It could be used for things other than equations by modifying the standard template.

By: Pax

Pax — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:03:06 +0000

When I saw this article, like ‘BlackMamba’, I also thought of Tiddlywiki (which is a true web page and accessible with any modern browser – no server required). Zim is a desktop application and should fall under the heading of a PIM, textual database or organizer.

For this type of need, I use Keynote (highly recommended):
http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html

Now Open Source:
http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote_os.html

By: s470r1

s470r1 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:18:19 +0000

You can even have a revision control of your notes/pages

Revision control (one of the most important features imo) is supported as of v0.26, however Intrepid Ibex only includes v0.25 ! Installing v0.26 with APT is only possible with Debian Unstable or a more recent derivative thereof than Intrepid... Although it doesn't really require installation... Just download the most recent version (available as .tar.gz) from either the author's website or Launchpad, extract it, and run ./Zim-0.26/bin/zim Importing your Tomboy Notes can be done using the tzim.py script.

By: BlackMamba

BlackMamba — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:57:42 +0000

Here another great alternative: tiddlywiki.com/

By: Varun Kashyap

Varun Kashyap — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:06:23 +0000

Yes, I have used been using LaTeX to insert mathematical symbols and equations in notes and it works seamlessly

By: Mackenzie Morgan

Mackenzie Morgan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:36:39 +0000

Can you take notes that include LaTeX like you can with Tomboy + the Tomboy LaTeX plugin?