Personal notes for densely connected ideas.
Thicket can be used to take notes as you work, creating a wiki like resource that is:
- Entirely text, can be managed in source control.
- Finely interlinked and quoted, with no broken links.
- Easy to browse, easy to extend.
- Structured for external tools.
Currently there is nothing here, and you shouldn't use it. The code is a default sphinx project that is finding itself. I encourage you to investigate Obsidian or Roam if the idea is appealing.
- ☑ Define a custom role for links to documents.
- ☐ List all backlinks at the bottom of all documents.
- ☐ Create restrictions on how documents should be structured.
- There is a daily-notes page named with today's date.
- Referenced documents always exist.
- ☐ Extend backlinks to support section level anchors.
- ☐ Support transclusion and other poorly named ideas.
- ☐ Create a graph visualization for notes.
- Can I create a Thicket that is a valuable artifact for someone else?
- Can I create a workshop or tutorial in Thicket?
- Can I embed flashcards, versioned information, or other structured data in Thicket?
- Can I create editor level tools to reduce the cognitive load of taking notes?
- Obsidian
- Markdown is Calvinball, hard to extend, port and reuse.
- I'm not thrilled with another electron app in my life.
- Plugin API not finalized / Immature.
- Roam
- Proprietary markdown is especially Calvinball
- Their site does not appear to be holding it together
- Our Beautiful Journey incoming
- MediaWiki
- One of my primary goals is to not require a database.
- The Labeled Section Transclusion extension exists.
- Tiddlywiki
- A single file application makes it difficult to access and reuse structured information.
- A lot of tiddlywiki's goals are similar to mine.
- Your Favorite Wiki
- Is probably more interested in providing a complete application than a html representation of a set of files.
- Thicket wants to be maintained in source control. Your favorite wiki probably doesn't.
- Notion
- Transclusion might be supported but isn't yet.
- Intended for enterprise and not for me.
- Probably not getting my data and workflow out in one piece.
- Doug Hellman blogs about his sphinx contributions