[tingol]

Have you tried vimwiki? It's vim, it's text so you can copy stuff from wherever.

Org mode is good and all but my god listening to people talk about it makes it seem they are building a fucking rocket by themselves based on how convoluted and massive their notes are. For regular people who just want notes that are searchable and connectable VimWiki is awesome.

[User23]

Contrariwise, I absolutely love org-babel. When I’m taking notes learning a new system I can embed runnable examples and their results in my notes.

Honestly if you just want linkable and searchable notes plain text with tags and whatever flavor of grep floats your boat will get you there.

[bmitc]

> Org mode is good and all but my god listening to people talk about it makes it seem they are building a fucking rocket by themselves based on how convoluted and massive their notes are.

Lol. So you mean that airport and rental car agents are really just typing away in org mode in Emacs back there? :p

[johnmaguire]

vimwiki is pretty good, but it uses a proprietary vimwiki format.

You can switch it over to Markdown but you lose a couple features IIRC.

I have a pretty extensive vimwiki, but it's only available on my laptops. I sync it via Git and have to remember to commit and push or it won't be available on another device.

I did hack up a simple React/Go app a while back to give it a web interface with a simple WYSIWYG editor I could access from my phone, with auto-commit/auto-push, but I ultimately haven't really used it.

[toastal]

You'll usually lose features resorting to Markdown and who knows what features you'll have with all the 'flavors'. I really wish it started losing ubiquity to competiors that are more usable and more standardized.