ZettelKasten Options

Requirements:

mandatory

• usesmarkdown
• support back linking between codes
• support note linkage graph
• auto update time on edit
• conversion to digital garden

optional

• dataview
• templater
• excalidraw

Options:

• Obsidian

  • proprietary

  • more plugins.

  • Publish

    • easily publish digital garden using foss withquartz.

• Logseq

  • foss

  • the graph view after publish seems much better.

  • growing github star

    • GitHub Star History (star-history.com)

  • Publish

    • https://discuss.logseq.com/t/how-to-publish-your-logseq-as-selfhosted-site/16412
    • https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/publishing
    • https://candideu.github.io/logseq-demo-graph-site-export/#/page/publishing%20your%20graph%20online

  • good features

    • have docker container that can be used to self host.
      • cloudflare tunnel authentication access
      • Is it possible to allow access only to specified users? - Zero Trust - Cloudflare Community
      • Setup your Domain using Cloudflare Tunnels and Zero Trust (noted.lol)
      • selfhost remote logseq instance - auth : r/logseq (reddit.com)
      • Restricting Access with HTTP Basic Authentication | NGINX Documentation
      • logseq/docs/docker-web-app-guide.md at master · logseq/logseq (github.com)
    • temporary web version
      • https://demo.logseq.com/#/
    • also have excalidraw plugin
    • haydenull/logseq-plugin-excalidraw (github.com)

  • current issues

    • doesnt work on firefox properly? There are talk to migrate it from electron (chromium based) to Tauri.
      • https://v2.tauri.app/
      • https://github.com/logseq/logseq/discussions/5875
      • https://www.reddit.com/r/logseq/comments/1frzi3j/firefox_not_supported/
    • logseq not on google play, but on apple store
    • logseq apk performance on mobile apparent have issues on low spec devices.
    • people are getting impatient for feature development. Apparently the database (db) version (speed up local caching) has been in development for a while.
      • Database version (closed alpha test started) on Logseq Roadmap | Trello

• VSCode/#vscodium +foam

  • version 0.26 graph have issue in github codespace (local works fine)
    • revert to vsix version 0.25.12 solves the issue.
  • use .vscode/settings.json to filter out folders that should not be included in the graph
    • need to include file name as part of the title tag in frontmatter
    • (try not to include emoji cos that might mess with file path on some system)
  • foam and vscode both have variables that one can use in templating
    • https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets
    • https://foambubble.github.io/foam/user/features/note-templates.html
  • foam can control what folder and file type to include in the graph by vscode configuration.

• vscode/vscodium +foam +logseq +loam

  • loam is vscode extension
  • foam bubble is not exclusive with obsidian markdown, and can also use quartz to publish

• vscode/vscodium +dendron

  • in maintenance mode, no longer in active development.

• Joplin

  • foss

• tana

  • https://tana.inc/engineering
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/logseq/comments/1epxcm5/when_logseq_db_will_be_available_to_the_public_in/

markdown publishing methods

• https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/16e5jek/best_way_to_selfhost_obsidian_publish/

Take a look at static site generators (SSGs) — there are many.Quartz,Jekyll,Hugo,Astro,Eleventy

• also considerMkdocs (seems to have a lot of plugins in ecosystem)

  • https://github.com/mkdocs/catalog/

• the biggest concern with SSG is:

  1. how well they can render different diagrams (mermaid, graphviz, plantuml, excalidraw)
     1. jekyll, hugo doesnt seem to have mature out of box plugins for a lot of visuals
  2. whether it is possible to show the note backlinks as network graphs (bidirectional optional)
     1. https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/advanced/making-plugins
     2. perhaps it is possible to create a plugin for this?project-ideas
     3. https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/discussions/2371
     4. https://github.com/foambubble/foam/issues/58
        1. discusses the use of d3.js to develop a plugin for gatsby publish.

Potential issues:

1. using tools with settings incompatible in the same vault
2. https://github.com/marketplace/actions/file-sync
3. the idea is to sync the raw note between repo and the config separately.