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I'm still not out of the rabbit hole of searching for an #OpenSource #PersonalKnowledgeManagement software. 
I'm gonna give a second try to @zettlr tomorrow! Their docs are *surprisingly* user-friendly and they claim to stick to the pure #CommonMark where probable. It's all the while being nice to researchers with citing, inline usage of #TeXLaTeX, #MermaidJS, and pop-over #footnotes. Provision of the simple #PDF export and #Pandoc customization are welcome, too!
But, to be fair, I may be overexaggerating how good #Zettlr is because of my recent disgust with #VendorLocking. In fact, almost anything that closely follows the common spec and is #FreeSoftware might suffice already. Having something as advanced and closer to the roots is certainly refreshing!
@vintprox @zettlr Why do you think Zettlr is vendor lock in?
in the end, you're producing markdown and zettlr is just a tool, that happens to make citing easier. Everything that's been written in Zettlr is universally usable by anything else.
I love that tool (for personal note-taking and writing Documentation , that is)
Of course, Zettlr is universal in that regard unlike certain popular options out there!
)While it is a good option, it lacks some, if not most, of the program-specific features I mentioned, which I will be missing a lot during my current projects.
My ultimate goal, however, isn't finding the app features, but an ability to switch workflows and not to constrain knowledge management with just one app that has final say in a user interface. One tiny inconvenience and no fast alternative - and I say kaput to my note-taking habit.
Brain of mine - it simply never gets used to interfaces for very long. I wanna stop maintaining 16 standards of Markdown between programs. That's why I need ~100% CommonMark-compliant files and apps that support most of its features, in the first place.
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If you happen to be a developer and use an IDE anyway, I can recommend the vscode extension #foam for markdown notes.
With Zettlr I could not find how to edit/see the raw markdown. The markdown was partial hidden behind markdown rendering.
It also polluted the tag cloud because the tag sign conflicted with my code snippets
@olkol Got me there. Raw Markdown sounds better and better with these half-baked WYSIWYG editors. I'm a sucker for ergonomics that VS Code/VSCodium provides, actually! No idea how I skipped Foam, despite having tried it earlier. Still looks nice, even though I bet there was something that irked me...
I'll need to give it a second look.
An alternative is the #PWA @silverbulletmd but you need to self-host it.
@zettlr @vintprox If you have powerful enough machine, try www.reorproject.org/
Reor is an AI-powered desktop note-taking app: it automatically links related ideas, answers questions on your notes and provides semantic search. Everything is stored locally and you can edit your notes with an Obsidian-like markdown editor.