MARKDOWN / ZETTELKASTEN

Site officiel de Markdown
CommonMark
Différentes consoles (Markdown text editors) :
- Foam (based on Visual Studio Code)
  - Free, powerful programming interface, plugins for Markdown and backlinks (see below), details to adjust sometimes, rather meant for programmers
  - Introduction
  - How My Cheap ZettelKasten Works and Answering Your Questions About The Zettelkasten System
  - Discussion
  - Extensions to install inside VSCode :
    - Markdown All in One (includes Zettelkasten links, Markdown+Math (mdmath))
    - Markdown Notes : manage backlinks (wiki-links)
    - Markdown Links (shows graph)
    - Preview (preview-vscode)
    - Markdown pdf (but does not generate pdf or html with wysiwyg math formulae). Use e.g. Typora to convert the md file into pdf.
    - Markdown Memo (as alternative to Markdown Notes) with markdown-hashtags (which can conflict with Markdown Notes)
- R Markdown with R Studio (to execute R and Python)
  - R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
  - View content changes in real-time with the Visual Markdown Editor
  - Meant for scientists, powerful, free
- Joplin
  - Open source
  - Can be turned into customizable Zettelkasten with a set of plugins (see here), thus I recommend
- Typora
  - Very neat interface
  - Can export in many formats
  - Links in Typora
  - Not free anymore but not expensive
- ANDROID APPS : Zettel Notes : good application including zettelkasten features. More complete : Obsidian. Without backlinks : neutriNote
- Roam Research
  - Not free (very expensive) and online only
  - Powerful for researchers, can use Zotero inside
  - Supports a graph mode
  - Privacy ?
  - I read that some people lost their data there...
- RemNote
  - Kind of equivalent to Roam
  - RemNote youtube channel
  - About RemNote privacy on reddit. At first install and run, tries to access webcam, why ?
- MarkText
- Obsidian (from the creators of the popular outlining tool Dynalist - Supports a graph mode - proprietary but 100% free said 'for ever' for personal use + pay plans for synchronisation)
  - Obsidian - The Power of Backlinks and the Knowledge Graph - Effective Remote Work
  - LaTeX Mathjax equation in Obsidian
  - Comprehensive Obsidian Workflow For Zettelkasten and Evergreen Notes (+ interactions with Zotero, Raindrop.io, Excalidraw). See Evergreen Notes system
  - A way to sync freely (without having to choose for a pay plan) with an online cloud server (Google Drive or OneDrive or another) or between two computers (in a private and encrypted way) is to use Syncthing, a continuous real time file synchronisation program
- Turtl: free option
- Zettlr: one of the best together with Obsidian
  - Open source
  - Has backlinks
  - Can integrate Zotero citations
- Markdown Monster, not free
  - See e.g. how to embed links
- Boost Note (developers oriented), but very restricted free option
  - Short presentation
- Apostrophe: for Linux only.
- Amplenote (not free, secure, Latex not integrated)
  - Overview
- TiddlyWiki (free, local but can be hosted on Tiddlyhost also (private or shared link)) ; completely free, number of plugins. (Add TiddlyFox extension in Firefox to allow for local saving or install TiddlyDesktop)
- tiddlyroam (opensource) with TiddlyDesktop
ONLINE markdown editors :
- HackMD, StackEdit. See also Best Free Online Markdown Editors That Are Also Open Source
Some comparisons :
Academic writing in Markdown
The Pandoc website: http://pandoc.org/ (permet à Zettlr par ex. d'importer et d'exporter des fichiers)
- Scientific writing in Markdown
Academic research workflows
Le système Zettelkasten (bidirectional links or backlinks or Wiki-style links -> Obsidian, Roam Research, Amplenote, RemNote, VS Code, Zettlr) :
Petit tour d'horizon du langage Markdown avec pour finir quelques exemples d'éditeurs
How to link to part of the same document in Markdown or here

Scientific writing resources

Awesome scientific writing

Abbreviations

PKM : Personal Knowledge Management