In the past few years I’ve tried various different methods of organizing my work and thoughts. Bullet journals, e-ink tablets hooked up to cloud storage, &c. vimwiki was great. It encouraged wiki-style webs of links, supported Markdown syntax, exported to HTML, and (most importantly) integrated well into my laptop’s environment; but terminal displays don’t allow the freedom of images, LaTeX renderings, embeddings, &c. I shall be free.
Criteria of the ideal personal knowledge system
- Standardized syntax and format in entries
- Support for links, backlinks, graph connections
- Extensibility for non-text features (i.e. videos, equations, images)
- Easily exportable to web
- Freedom in design
Up to now, the best system I’ve found for this is Quartz which is designed for integration with personal knowledge systems using Obsidian or other Zettelkasten-supporting markdown systems. And so, the page you are viewing now is generated using Quartz.