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diff --git a/posts/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.md b/posts/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4d654b8..0000000 --- a/posts/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -There is different reasons to want a personal wiki on your machine: - -* privacy -* having it everywhere - -I've tested a few wikis engines, like [tiddlywiki](http://tiddlywiki.com/), but I've found nothing that was really what I wanted. The main inconveniance is the need to use a webbrowser. A browser is not a text processor, so it's really painfull to use them for writing. - -I've started to try to use vim as wiki. Why would I want to use something like vim for this ? well, it's plain text (easy to grep, or to write script for manipulating data), application independent, it's a real text processor, you can customize it, and most importantly, I know how to use it, ... - -I've got a **wiki** directory in my home directory, with all my files in it. I use git to track versions of it (you can use svn if you prefer, there is no difference for this usage). In my .vimrc, i've added this instruction: `set exrc`. - -In my wiki directory, i've got another .vimrc with some specific mapping: - -```vim -map ,I <esc>:e index.mkd <cr> -map ,T <esc>:e todo.mkd <cr> -map ,S <esc>:e someday.mkd <cr> -map ,c <esc>:s/^ /c/<cr> -map ,w <esc>:s/^ /w/<cr> -map ,x <esc>:s/^ /x/<cr> -map gf :e <cfile>.mkd<cr> " open page -map <backspace> :bp<cr> -imap \date <c-R>=strftime("%Y-%m-%d")<cr> -set tabstop=2 " Number of spaces <tab> counts for. -set shiftwidth=2 " Unify -set softtabstop=2 " Unify -``` - -I organize my files in directory. I've got a **work**, **lists**, **recipes**, **misc**, ... and I put my files in this directory. - -I've got an index page, with links to main section. I don't have wikiword in camelcase or things like that, so if i want to put a link to a page, I just wrote the link this way **dir_name/page_name**, then, i juste have to hit `gf` on this link to open the page. I also use this place as a todo list manager. I've got one paragrah per day, like this : - - 2008-06-14 - - [@context] task 1 - - [@context] task 2 - ... - -and a bunch of vim mapping for marking complete (`,c`), work in progress (`,w`) or canceled (`,x`). - -If i don't have a deadline for a particular task, I use a 'someday' file, where the task is put with a context. - -The good things with markdown, is that the syntax is easy to use, and it's easy to convert to HTML. |