Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode

I have yet to find a solid obsidian competitor, plugins + git repo really do cover most things.

A folder of markdown docs in your favourite text editor, ftw!

+ It’s all within the editor you already know really well. Uses your existing tools.

+ Many editors have really good support for markdown built in. Treat H1’s like notes and along with modern fuzzy search for files/symbols you can easily get to any note and jump around.

+ If you want smarter [[liking]] there’s some good plugins out there to bring this to your editor.

+ Simple, future proof and no lock-in.

I’m currently enjoying markdown-oxide, an LSP for markdown docs. Captures all your notes as symbols so you can fuzzy search and “find references”, etc. supports #tags, too.

I have fallen in love with SVG+text Mermaid diagrams embedded in markdown code blocks, and LLMs are really great at generating them (by reading design documents and source code) and editing them with natural language commands. And they're not inaccessible unsearchable dead-end images you have to laboriously regenerate and check into the repo whenever you want to change something! ;)

Mermaid: Diagramming and charting tool: JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically.

https://mermaid.js.org/

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid: A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files.

https://github.blog/developer-skills/github/include-diagrams...

Creating diagrams: Create diagrams to convey information through charts and graphs:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor...

The Official Guide to Mermaid.js:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-Official-Guide-to-Mer...