Zim

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Zim - cross-platform personal wiki software

Key links :

• Website: https://zim-wiki.org
• Wikipedia: 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/

Commentary

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 Category:GNOME desktop