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Zim aims to bring the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Every page is
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saved as a text file with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other
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pages, and are saved automatically. Creating a new page is as easy as
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linking to a non-existing page. This tool is intended to keep track of
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TODO lists or to serve as a personal scratch book. But it will also
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serve you when writing longer and more complicated documents.
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2013-12-27 11:38:39 +01:00
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2020-01-31 17:34:15 +01:00
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A "desktop wiki" means that we try to capture the idea of a wiki, not
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as a webpage but as a collection of files on your local file system
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that can be edited with a GUI application. The main focus is a kind
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of personal wiki that serves for all kind of notes: todo-lists,
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addresses, brainstorm ideas etc.
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But we want to go further then just a wiki filled with random content.
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It should also be possible to use you random notes as the basis for
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more structured data: articles, presentations etc. Zim will not include
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tools to layout a presentation or something like that, you should use
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your office suite of choice for that, but it should be a tool that can
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deliver all the content for a presentation in a form that only needs a
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template and some layout before usage. Therefore certain features
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normally not found in wikis will be added.
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NOTE: Zim can be expanded with plugins. From 'preferences' go to
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'plugins' and anything marked 'failed' can be installed either
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from SBo or pip. These aren't dependencies; Zim runs without them.
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