Also a very simple thing that made my daily work so much easier: place useful commands in some plaintext / markdown file, and make an alias in your shell (e.g. 'notes') that does a grep or fzf on it that file. (customize a little bit to support e.g. 1 line for description and second line for the actual command). Now you'll never need to remember a command again, as long as you remember to note it on the file. For example I type "notes git" in my bash and I get all sorts of useful git commands that are a bit too tricky too remember. Ah and of course, use tmux with copy-mode-vi to super easily select, copy and paste the output with vi bindings :-)
thanks again for this neat video. My main reason for using vimwiki over any other tools is just I hate electron apps and feel pretty comfortable with vim. I'd love to see much more plugin reviews!
vimwiki as a note-taking application for my upcoming geospatial data analysis courses looks as though it has the features I will need to write and organize my course notes.
Thank you so much for your video! It solved my problem of needing a note taking system, and you explained things very well and clearly. Very easily understandable for new users.
When creating multi word wiki pages try writing it in the following format: "this-is-a-multiple-word-page" (and then hit enter on it) I will benefit you in two ways: 1) Hitting enter on it will work as you expect with single word pages, without the fuzz of adding the double square brackets 2) You will thank yourself later in case you want to reference this file in any command as you won't have to escape all this white spaces :) Awesome videos! Keep it up
@@BrodieRobertson that's the amazing part about it. It turns the dashes to white spaces only for the description and keeps them for the file name. But whatever sails your boat man :)
But.... I currently sync my Joplin notes over Nextcloud... Anyways though, I overall agree with your sentiment since it's also similar to the discussion we had on your discord after the Joplin video. I plan on switching to vim wiki as well eventually, once I find the time to move over all my notes. This is actually also the reason why I think I'll be sticking to markdown notation over the vim wiki specific format since it's more general and portable. I don't need vim-wiki for it to work. Since it's basically just markdown files and directories
Yes, of course. It was more meant as a teasing joke or something. Since you can also sync joplin files over any kind of file sharing system like nextcloud, dropbox etc probably also more or less well over git but that's not officially supported or inbuilt. Since Joplin uses sqlite which is a file based database. Though it's still very annoying since it isn't plaintext
I'm so tired of people starting editor wars in the comment session whenever we have a RUclips video talking about vim or emacs. I just want to say... . . . . . . . . . Emacs is the best editor ever! FIGHT ME!
Emacs is not an editor tho. It's an environment that includes an editor. Emacs' editor might be as good as VIM, but it's default keybindings are just killing everything concerned with your hand (hence Evil-Mode). So, comparing Emacs to VIM is a bit stupid ... in my opinion. One is an extendable Editor (VIM) and the other one is an Environment (Emacs) ... or maybe even just an Emacs-Lisp IDE? Used Org-Mode with Spacemacs, loved it. Sadly I found that fighting Emacs is too much work for me, so I switched back to Neovim.
@@SuperSampling this is the right answer here. I had the exact same experience, org-mode rocks, but keeping emacs out the way is a part time job in itself!! (saying this after using emacs for 2 years)
@@BrodieRobertson How do you think Luke learned in the first place? We all learn from someone. Besides, I have been following both you and Bryan for sometime now and I must admit both of you have brought a lot to the table yourselves. However, Luke will always be our godfather. I myself wouldn't be scripting and living on the terminal today if not for him.
I think you already figured out by now, but the reason why you "don't see" the header is because codedark theme defaults to white for it. If you change the theme it will change the color, but it is not worth it. White is nice. Btw, thanks for making this video. You convinced me to try vimwiki and I am loving it.
I am still planning to try out org mode at some point but for now I just needed to get my notes out of Joplin, now that they are I can do whatever I want with them. Let me know your preferred note taking method down below.
I started off from Evernote, then moved all of that to zim (which is really nice and definitely worth a try if you have not done so already). Now I'm playing with orgmode, and thinking about moving everything from zim to org. There is a recently developed plugin "org-roam" that is replicating the Research Roam type of workflow. I'm still trying out that "zettelkasten" workflow and I think both zim and org can achieve that type of things. Basically you don't organize notes into hierarchies but inter-link them into a big network, much like the way you create [[links]] in vimwiki. Vim and vimwiki do not handle inserting images, do they? Latex formula? Tables? Bibliography and citations? So I think maybe you should try out org before doing a mass joplin-vim migration.
Org mode is great but emacs has it's own steep learning curve and I never got comfortable using it even with evil mode. The thing keeping me from moving to vimwiki was org mode's calendar/agenda functionality but I recently discovered the taskwiki and vim-taskwarrior plugins that integrate with the taskwarrior command line tool, so I'm considering transitioning to vimwiki.
Vim will always be bae, but I never found any combination of vim plugins which come close to what org mode can do out of the box. I settled for EVIL mode in emacs with whatever plugins ship with spacemacs because setup was as simple as cloning a repo. Though after using that for a couple years and now revisiting vimwiki, I think I might start using vimwiki for things that should actually be in a wiki (like esoteric commands I might use once every three months). I basically live inside vim so not having to switch to emacs or a random txt file for stuff like this would be convenient. But for planning tasks/projects/todos and even general life stuff I think it would be tough to beat org mode.
If your just taking notes then why not just use any regular old note app? Like Google docs or ms word or Libre office etc? You don't need all stuff for just that! This for those wanting a database app for having everything in it!
I'm using Obsidian, backed by Syncthing. Vimwiki set up to be able to browse and edit as well if I'm on a cli. The nice thing is that it's all my data, even if my GUI is closed source, it's all my data. So I'm not DEPENDENT on Obsidian. If they become horrible, I'll just trash it. Obsidian also has basic vim movements. It's pretty awesome.
Only issue, no copy and paste into of images ... sometimes I do need images in my docs and now we need the image somewhere and link to it and so forth..
Thanks for the content! After watching and some more background research (for things like how to do web clipper for md among others), I want to try it out myself. What's the easiest way to jump from Joplin to vimwiki in ur opinion? I've been a heavy joplin user myself in the past 2 years. Is there any quick way to gen the index file per notebook?
Necrocommenting on a 3yr-old video, but I have a legit question and the reason why I'm still on Joplin. Does neovim allow you to paste images from clipboard, and even automatically suggest scaling them down if they're too high-res? Cause these are two cool Joplin features I didn't see elsewhere (VS Code does allow u to paste images into md from clipboard tho). Sorry for bothering and could've looked the answer online, but I wanted to share this perspective.
@@BrodieRobertson See if I decide to use org-mode, I'll be using it in emacs, which means I'd have to learn a lot. Frankly I want to explore vim more before I start using emacs, so vim-wiki seems good for the meantime
Hey Brodie I was hoping you could help me configure nvidia-optimus on my laptop properly as I'm facing some issues. btw I'm us30 graphicsing archlinux and my specs are:- 1660Ti Max-Q, 9750h and the UHD 6
Hi im new to this channel, i wanna say your mic 🎤 sounds little bad really for me personally its really hard to understand what your saying. But i love your informative videos so I can't help my self but to watch it, but i request you it will be very lovely if you fix it even little bit.
It's okay but pales in comparison to Notion or other major note taking apps. The major issue is heading sizes and lack of sync. Org mode doesn't seem to have this either.
Can you set your font size before making a video? Seriously is very annoying to see when someone (in every linux video, every uploader) increase the font size. If it would be some 23rd century candy tech (or for show off or something).... Maybe my hormones or i'm just simply depressed but... Most of the users have 22"+ display. Only gays watching through phones. Imagine a CO_2 free world if everyone would omit the 'likesubscribecommentbell' thing. Ohh... I broke down. I follow the channel manually. The daily spam is too much for me. Just make 1 hours videos and upload once a week.
Also a very simple thing that made my daily work so much easier: place useful commands in some plaintext / markdown file, and make an alias in your shell (e.g. 'notes') that does a grep or fzf on it that file. (customize a little bit to support e.g. 1 line for description and second line for the actual command). Now you'll never need to remember a command again, as long as you remember to note it on the file. For example I type "notes git" in my bash and I get all sorts of useful git commands that are a bit too tricky too remember.
Ah and of course, use tmux with copy-mode-vi to super easily select, copy and paste the output with vi bindings :-)
Why not just alias the long command?
@@BrodieRobertson because I might not need it that often, or sometimes only need parts of it in the future
@@LPFan33 I guess that makes sense
‘Cheat’ is also good for this, though I like the single file idea in combination with a shell function to quickly append a new snippet to the file.
thanks again for this neat video. My main reason for using vimwiki over any other tools is just I hate electron apps and feel pretty comfortable with vim. I'd love to see much more plugin reviews!
vimwiki as a note-taking application for my upcoming geospatial data analysis courses looks as though it has the features I will need to write and organize my course notes.
There's also a scheduling feature built into vimwiki which might be helpful for you as well.
Cheers Brodie. I'm sold. I too started using Joplin recently but haven't used it too much. I'm in NVIM so much anyway that this makes perfect sense.
nvim? is that the same as neovim?
Thank you so much for your video! It solved my problem of needing a note taking system, and you explained things very well and clearly. Very easily understandable for new users.
When creating multi word wiki pages try writing it in the following format:
"this-is-a-multiple-word-page" (and then hit enter on it)
I will benefit you in two ways:
1) Hitting enter on it will work as you expect with single word pages, without the fuzz of adding the double square brackets
2) You will thank yourself later in case you want to reference this file in any command as you won't have to escape all this white spaces :)
Awesome videos! Keep it up
Yeah I know that'll keep it as one word but I don't want to write descriptions for everything to add the spaces back.
@@BrodieRobertson that's the amazing part about it. It turns the dashes to white spaces only for the description and keeps them for the file name. But whatever sails your boat man :)
@@alexandrosvasileiou9635 oh does it, I didn't realise that
wow this is dope, thank you. i don't want to use a cloud note service anymore and this is perfect, works better for me now than hierarchical notebook
Five years from now: I Should Have Just Used Orgmode From The Start
Nyar M .org is great and versatile one of the reasons I started using emacs
@@shuwan4games vi is better!
@@humm535 No.
I still have org mode on the list of things to test so maybe it'll happen
Humm just use vi in emacs
im currently using obsidian, do you think vimwiki would be good for me?
But.... I currently sync my Joplin notes over Nextcloud...
Anyways though, I overall agree with your sentiment since it's also similar to the discussion we had on your discord after the Joplin video. I plan on switching to vim wiki as well eventually, once I find the time to move over all my notes.
This is actually also the reason why I think I'll be sticking to markdown notation over the vim wiki specific format since it's more general and portable. I don't need vim-wiki for it to work. Since it's basically just markdown files and directories
There's no reason why you couldn't setup a thing to do next cloud synching with vimwiki tbh
Yes, of course. It was more meant as a teasing joke or something. Since you can also sync joplin files over any kind of file sharing system like nextcloud, dropbox etc probably also more or less well over git but that's not officially supported or inbuilt. Since Joplin uses sqlite which is a file based database. Though it's still very annoying since it isn't plaintext
I'm so tired of people starting editor wars in the comment session whenever we have a RUclips video talking about vim or emacs.
I just want to say...
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Emacs is the best editor ever! FIGHT ME!
by looking at your pfp. I already know what youre gonna say without expanding the message
Emacs is not an editor tho. It's an environment that includes an editor. Emacs' editor might be as good as VIM, but it's default keybindings are just killing everything concerned with your hand (hence Evil-Mode).
So, comparing Emacs to VIM is a bit stupid ... in my opinion. One is an extendable Editor (VIM) and the other one is an Environment (Emacs) ... or maybe even just an Emacs-Lisp IDE?
Used Org-Mode with Spacemacs, loved it. Sadly I found that fighting Emacs is too much work for me, so I switched back to Neovim.
@@SuperSampling this is the right answer here. I had the exact same experience, org-mode rocks, but keeping emacs out the way is a part time job in itself!! (saying this after using emacs for 2 years)
i am new to the markdown concept, so need detailed explanations and yours sucks
Both are sh*t, Notepad for President.
Shout-out to Bryan Jenks. He got me to migrate from Joplin and I must say I couldn't be happier.
I like Bryan a lot, we came from the same spot of copying Luke.
@@BrodieRobertson How do you think Luke learned in the first place? We all learn from someone. Besides, I have been following both you and Bryan for sometime now and I must admit both of you have brought a lot to the table yourselves. However, Luke will always be our godfather. I myself wouldn't be scripting and living on the terminal today if not for him.
friendship over with Joplin, Vimwiki is my best friend lol
I think you already figured out by now, but the reason why you "don't see" the header is because codedark theme defaults to white for it. If you change the theme it will change the color, but it is not worth it. White is nice.
Btw, thanks for making this video. You convinced me to try vimwiki and I am loving it.
I should have just rubbed two electrons together from the start
That's a bit too minimal for me
@@BrodieRobertson it’s pretty much the most perfect way of doing it
I am still planning to try out org mode at some point but for now I just needed to get my notes out of Joplin, now that they are I can do whatever I want with them. Let me know your preferred note taking method down below.
I started off from Evernote, then moved all of that to zim (which is really nice and definitely worth a try if you have not done so already). Now I'm playing with orgmode, and thinking about moving everything from zim to org. There is a recently developed plugin "org-roam" that is replicating the Research Roam type of workflow. I'm still trying out that "zettelkasten" workflow and I think both zim and org can achieve that type of things. Basically you don't organize notes into hierarchies but inter-link them into a big network, much like the way you create [[links]] in vimwiki.
Vim and vimwiki do not handle inserting images, do they? Latex formula? Tables? Bibliography and citations? So I think maybe you should try out org before doing a mass joplin-vim migration.
Org mode is great but emacs has it's own steep learning curve and I never got comfortable using it even with evil mode. The thing keeping me from moving to vimwiki was org mode's calendar/agenda functionality but I recently discovered the taskwiki and vim-taskwarrior plugins that integrate with the taskwarrior command line tool, so I'm considering transitioning to vimwiki.
Vim will always be bae, but I never found any combination of vim plugins which come close to what org mode can do out of the box. I settled for EVIL mode in emacs with whatever plugins ship with spacemacs because setup was as simple as cloning a repo. Though after using that for a couple years and now revisiting vimwiki, I think I might start using vimwiki for things that should actually be in a wiki (like esoteric commands I might use once every three months). I basically live inside vim so not having to switch to emacs or a random txt file for stuff like this would be convenient. But for planning tasks/projects/todos and even general life stuff I think it would be tough to beat org mode.
Markdown files. For local editing you can use whatever you want. For remote editing I found Pappermintwiki quite nice.
obsidian works fine for me
If your just taking notes then why not just use any regular old note app? Like Google docs or ms word or Libre office etc? You don't need all stuff for just that! This for those wanting a database app for having everything in it!
I'm using Obsidian, backed by Syncthing. Vimwiki set up to be able to browse and edit as well if I'm on a cli. The nice thing is that it's all my data, even if my GUI is closed source, it's all my data. So I'm not DEPENDENT on Obsidian. If they become horrible, I'll just trash it.
Obsidian also has basic vim movements.
It's pretty awesome.
Always enjoy a new useful vim plug-in.
I don't know if you've noticed but I've been trying to do 1 plugin a week lately.
Love vim.... easy to use ..... that's it!...
Only issue, no copy and paste into of images ... sometimes I do need images in my docs and now we need the image somewhere and link to it and so forth..
Brodie, thank you for the video! I did the same joplin-vimwiki migration and I am really happy with vimwiki too.
I've been loving vimwiki, it's so much nicer to use
I sometimes wonder if we take more time thinking about the meta of note taking, than note taking itself.
Joplin is great. It's what I use everyday. I'm not moving to vim-wiki.
What's the issue with using Github/Gitlab for storing personal databases?
Thanks for the content! After watching and some more background research (for things like how to do web clipper for md among others), I want to try it out myself. What's the easiest way to jump from Joplin to vimwiki in ur opinion? I've been a heavy joplin user myself in the past 2 years. Is there any quick way to gen the index file per notebook?
Necrocommenting on a 3yr-old video, but I have a legit question and the reason why I'm still on Joplin. Does neovim allow you to paste images from clipboard, and even automatically suggest scaling them down if they're too high-res? Cause these are two cool Joplin features I didn't see elsewhere (VS Code does allow u to paste images into md from clipboard tho).
Sorry for bothering and could've looked the answer online, but I wanted to share this perspective.
OBSIDIAN
Does vimwiki support markdown?
Thanks for the video..
Seems like orgmode would probably be better but I'm still gonna be using this lol
It may be but it's still an upgrade from Joplin for me
@@BrodieRobertson See if I decide to use org-mode, I'll be using it in emacs, which means I'd have to learn a lot. Frankly I want to explore vim more before I start using emacs, so vim-wiki seems good for the meantime
If my vimwiki is saved in dropbox, and something happens to my disk, will I be able to easily restore the wiki?
Vimwiki is great, but it doesn't support asciidoc by default. Which I really love.
One thing Joplin has over vimwiki is a mobile app...
You can run termux on Android and use vim in that
@@BrodieRobertson I know, but that’s not really an app interface
Good video.
Do you still use vimwiki?
i dont uderstand what is the use if it doesnt just generate a wiki website ?
You don't need a website to get the benefits of linking together documents.
Can you please have a look at zim wiki. I've been using it since 2015 .
I'll look into it
That's the same sintax that wikizim
obsidian is better than vimwiki, both works with vim keybindings.
Are you talking about obsidian.md?
Brodie Robertson yes
Depends. Do you want to abandon the full power of vim or leverage it? Do you want vim-like or vim-max?
Can you use vim wiki on your phone?
It's just text so no reason why not
Hey Brodie I was hoping you could help me configure nvidia-optimus on my laptop properly as I'm facing some issues. btw I'm us30 graphicsing archlinux and my specs are:- 1660Ti Max-Q, 9750h and the UHD 6
Optimus-manager, optimus-manager-qt and bbswitch ftw.
I never worked out how optimus worked, sorry I can't help
Why not just use notion?
Notion seems to have a lot of cool features that I'll probably never use
Luke = Christian
Brodie = Amish
Please explain?
Brodie Robertson that beard game you have going on
still using this? or have you moved on?
Still using it
My brain keeps portraying me as a loser for being virgin at 25 and I don’t know why I am watching vimwiki
That's an interesting segue
still virgin mate?
Hi im new to this channel, i wanna say your mic 🎤 sounds little bad really for me personally its really hard to understand what your saying. But i love your informative videos so I can't help my self but to watch it, but i request you it will be very lovely if you fix it even little bit.
This video was from when I had no idea how to work with audio, this is from a year ago
@@BrodieRobertson thanks for the information sir, your content is awesome btw. I love your channel. Love from Maldives 🇲🇻
It's okay but pales in comparison to Notion or other major note taking apps. The major issue is heading sizes and lack of sync. Org mode doesn't seem to have this either.
Org mode just kill vimwiki for me
its like a poor quality version of Org Mode
But I don't have to use emacs to use it which is a big plus
@@BrodieRobertson LOL you gotta admit the main reason we don't use Emacs.
Can you set your font size before making a video? Seriously is very annoying to see when someone (in every linux video, every uploader) increase the font size. If it would be some 23rd century candy tech (or for show off or something).... Maybe my hormones or i'm just simply depressed but... Most of the users have 22"+ display. Only gays watching through phones. Imagine a CO_2 free world if everyone would omit the 'likesubscribecommentbell' thing. Ohh... I broke down.
I follow the channel manually. The daily spam is too much for me. Just make 1 hours videos and upload once a week.