Zim

Zim - cross-platform personal wiki software

Key links :
 * Website: https://zim-wiki.org
 * Wikipedia: Zim (software)

Trends
Tomboy used to be more popular, but according to Google Trends, Zim is winning that head-to-head battle:


 * Google Trends: Zim vs Tomboy

Markup
Zim has a Dokuwiki-derived format that is partially supported by pandoc as "ZimWiki" markup. Writing is supported, but reading isn't supported yet.

Links

 * Website: https://zim-wiki.org
 * Wikipedia: ZimWiki
 * Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/ZimDW
 * AlternativeTo: https://alternativeto.net/software/zim---a-desktop-wiki/
 * Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/t:zim
 * Github: https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/

RobLa

 * Commentary from User:RobLa

I've been working with Zim off-and-on for many years now, since my migration from Tomboy in 2010. I loved the fact that Zim used the plain text files rather than Tomboy's database-based approach at the time.

There are many interesting attributes that are both positives and negatives:


 * Mature codebase with a lot of users
 * Uses a markup language partially supported in in pandoc
 * Many, many features
 * Unique non-Markdown markup
 * GUI is very focused on the GNOME desktop