Software Request: Open Source Personal Content Repository

Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 23, 2018 at 08:50 AM

Actually, in view of your needs, you could do worse than look at Zettlr (recently referenced in another thread). I’m using it in conjunction with AutoTask (formerly Soonr, a business-oriented Dropbox equivalent) to sync stuff between Macs. Based on GitHub Markdown, it also supports HTML coding, as well as syntax highlighting for the following languages (if that’s something that interests you):

C (c)
C# (csharp)
C++ (cpp)
CSS (css)
Java (java)
JavaScript (javascript)
LESS (less)
Objective C (objectivec)
PHP (php)
Python (python)
R (r)
Ruby (ruby)
SQL (sql)
Swift (swift)
YAML (yaml)

It supports Pandoc and LaTeX, too, not least in order to offer a wide variety of output options, including PDF, HTML, ODT, DOCX, RTF, TeX, ORG, mWiki, rST and Txtl.

It also supports:
- file identifiers for sophisticated cross-referencing (if you want it – otherwise tags)
- tagging
- multiple projects (each based in its own directory with subdirectories; notes stored as standard .txt or .md files); means you could use multiple file syncing systems such as Dropbox, iCloud, Syncthing etc. to host projects if you so wished
- virtual directories (for focusing on specific topics)
- a very powerful search function that is also cross-directory, with highlighting, and

it appears to have an intelligent, thoughtful developer who’s open to suggestions. It’s also open-source. As a repository for personal content, I think it has legs! Personally, I vastly prefer it over TheBrain, but if you really love the visual thing, its markdown support means you could also open the files in a markdown-compatible mind or concept mapper.

Cheers,
Bill