2024年03月14日

Personal Wiki

I moved away from Obsidian.md in favor of vimwiki because my Obsidian notes got clunky and messy. I wanted something that can easily be maintained.

I found out about Quartz and made me stick to using Markdown for my plaintext notes. I checked Asciidoc and it has more features than Markdown and support for built-in syntax that Markdown does not have. It was interesting but it falls short on vimwiki-like tool and Antora does not have backlinks, file preview, and local graph.

vimwiki + quartz

Pros:

  • wikilinks

  • graph view

  • plugins

  • previews

  • backlinks

Cons:

  • it’s not asciidoc

asciidoctor + antora

Pros:

  • asciidoc itself

  • got lots of features that i haven’t tested yet

Cons:

  • no wikilinks

  • no vimwiki

  • no previews

  • no backlinks

  • no graph view

  • annoying to setup

I found an interesting Quartz setup on https://www.mara-li.fr/, I’ll be taking that as inspiration.

I tried using AsciiDoc and Antora at first but I did not like the idea of having to configure the navigation menus and bars, and other parts of the UI as well. Thus I gave up on using it. It was annoying and wasted my time.