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[โ€“] fierysparrow89@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Never worked with any note taking apps except for Vim with customized snippets and rudamentary helper scripts.

While such an app seems very appealing, I haven't seen any of them featuring the useful stuff, such as pluggable editor (in my case Vim or NeoVim), template support (day journal, meeting, README etc...), rendered fields (e.g.: today, author, or arbitrary values), support for pandoc rendering, doc metadata management (tags, keywords, related docs, links) or markers in text eg. @TODO etc... (idea being to aut. create lists of paragraps with such markers)

What's the point of a note taking app that provides help with editing single docs and maybe with rendering to HTML, but doesn't help organizing and remembering stuff?

[โ€“] ArkHost@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Different use case. HelixNotes is for people who want a clean, simple note-taking app that works out of the box - not a customizable text processing pipeline. If Vim snippets work for you, stick with that. Not every tool needs to be for everyone.