VimWiki: I write my notes in the terminal, like a monster

VimWiki is my preferred notetaking solution because it's intentionally minimal. When I want to take notes, I want to take notes, not see a mind map or extra visualizations or photos to distract me. I'm old school! (Or just old.) In today's video, I'll show you how to install VimWiki for yourself, as well as configure it to use Markdown (my preferred text formatting), and update the file path for VimWiki files so that it's easy to sync with third party solutions like Nextcloud Notes. Significant links mentioned in the video: 👩🏻‍💻 My blog post which covers this topic: https://vkc.sh/vimwiki-101 👷 VimWiki's GitHub page: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki ☁️ Nextcloud, my preferred self-hosted file sync solution: https://nextcloud.com 📓 Nextcloud Notes on GitHub: https://github.com/nextcloud/notes-android 🎈 Eleventy, my preferred SSG: https://www.11ty.dev/ 🦖 Wikipedia's page on how modes work as an interface concept (Vim being an example of a "modal editor"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(user_interface) This video has no sponsors except for my channel's Patrons and Ko-Fi members. 🅿️ Patreon: https://patreon.com/VeronicaExplains ☕ Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/VeronicaExplains You can also subscribe to my videos with RSS and ditch the algorithm altogether. 📰 RSS: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCMiyV_Ib77XLpzHPQH_q0qQ Chapters: 0:00 I say "greetings" and tell you about VimWiki 1:33 Getting and installing VimWiki 3:46 Using VimWiki 6:51 Customizing VimWiki: switching it to Markdown 8:28 Changing the VimWiki directory (to sync with Nextcloud) 10:10 Navigating around in VimWiki 12:12 Conclusion: I think VimWiki is neat #linux #vim #homelab