Trillium Notes by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Originally at github.com/zadam/trilium, then after development stopped the community took it up at: github.com/TriliumNext/Notes.
Tree based organization at last. Infinitely deep.
Amazing WYSIWYG, including maths and tables, plus insane plugins like canvas mode, and specific file formats like code/mermaid diagrams/drawing mode.
Intentionally or not, they've basically made an open source Notion, with the possible exception that Notion historically started on web and moved to the desktop, while Trillium went the other way round.
Version history with automatic snapshots at intervals. TODO how is it implemented? Do they just ZIP multiple versions?
No multiuser features. Except for that, could have been a good starting point of an online multiuser thing such as OurBigBook.com!
With Book Notes it is possible possible to see more than one page at a time on the output, which his a major feature of OurBigBook. But does it show on HTML export as well?
You can static HTML export any subtree by right clicking on it in the navigation tree.
Is there a CLI to export to HTML? github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/3012
HTML export keeps all data as HTML is their native format. This may be inherited from CKEditor. The files are mostly visible, but there is some CSS missing, it is not 100% like editor, notably math is broken. There is also a hosted way of exposing: github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Sharing.
trilium.rocks however has a very good export, it is just a question of how much they had to hacked things, source at: github.com/zerebos/trilium.rocks
The default tHTML export uses frame navigation, with a toc fixed on the left frame. Efficient, but not of this century.
There is no concept of user created unique text IDs: you can have the same headers in the same folders in the UI. It's not even a matter of scopes. On exports they are differentiated as 1_name, 2_name, etc.
./Trilium Demo/Books/To read/1_HR.md
./Trilium Demo/Books/To read/2_HR.md
./Trilium Demo/Books/To read/HR.md
Markdown export warns:
this preserves most of the formatting
Architecture: runs on local SQLite database via better-sqlite3. Data apparently stored in SQLite database at ~/.local/share/trilium-data, no raw files.
Markup is stored as HTML as seen from: sqlite3 document.db 'SELECT * from note_contents'. HTML is their native storage format, quite interesting. But this means it is not source centric, so any source editing would have to go via import/export. It can be done apparently: github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Markdown but involves shoving a ZIP around.
WYSIWYG based on ckeditor.com/ which is a dependency. It is kind of cool that the view in which you view the output is exactly the same as the one you edit in, and there is no intermediate format, just the HTML.
Math is KaTeX based.
It also runs on the browser via a server: github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Server-installation. And they have a paid service for it at: trilium.cc/. Quite impressive.
They have server to from desktop sync: github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/synchronization. There is no conflict resolution, one of them wins randomly. But they have revision history, and anything lost will be in the revision history. They have so many features it is mind blowing.
Maintainer announced he would be slowing down development since January 2024: github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/4620?ref=selfh.st
WikiWikiWeb by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The venerable first wiki.
The pre-Eternal September feeling is palpable.
People could freely comment their thoughts and sign below, making it much closer to what Ciro Santilli wants OurBigBook.com to be. But with upvotes ;-)
Nothing can better encapsulate the nostalgia of early day Internet. Genius at times, banal at others, you will be forever in our hearts!
PhD Comics by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Each comic page has an "Emergency Button" below it, which redirects to a mock PDF formatted as a research paper, so you can quickly pretend to be working. Epic.
Figure 1.
The evolution of intellectual freedom by PhD Comics (2011)
Source.
Good video game by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Software toy by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli's TODO there:
Video game platform by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Software with bad user interface by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
It is hard to pinpoint why, but the following useful software just feel bad for some reason:
Balloon by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Neighbourhood (mathematics) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Dense set by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
AlphaPhoenix by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiMR6yAFfyA He obtained PhD from UCSB in Materials, exploring, among other things, growth of a semiconductor called lead selenide.
Aweseome dude filmed a bit of the high end univeresity equipment while doing his thesis.
Static site generator by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The best one is OurBigBook CLI of course! :-)
Ciro's Edict #7 / ourbigbook.com by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro's Edict #5 / Misc tech by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro's Edict #4 / China front by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
At github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/738 a user made a comment about gang raping my mother (more like country-raping).
As mentioned at github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/739, ally Martin then reported the issue, and GitHub took down the wumao's account for a while using their undocumented shadowban feature, until the wumao edited the issue.
Based on the discussion with Martin, I then recommended at github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/41b4741a4e6553f44f5f1ef85cf63c55eb7b8277/CONTRIBUTING.md that we do not report such issues, and that GitHub do not delete such accounts, with rationale explained on the CONTRIBUTING.
Law by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Organization by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Globalization by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Religion by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
His father always told him a story about how when Ciro was small, someone raised the question of the existence of God, to which Ciro replied very directly and naturally, without any doubts:
That doesn't exist.
It's a genetic thing it seems.
Union (set theory) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created

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