/siyuan-note

Knowledge Management

Tools

There are several tools to support your knowledge management.

I personally prefer the self-hosted service instead of using the commercial products such as Notion, Evernote.

Here some tools that I discorved/researched:

  • Logseg
    • Collaboration
    • PDF. Annotation
    • Task management
    • Markdown support
    • Video
    • Media
    • Many plugins, themes, workflow customrizaiton options (expanble)
    • Desktop App ?
    • Look like the RemNote app
      • FlashCard
      • Whiteboard
    • Support Web App -> Link to local database
    • Like Remnote, Obsicidian
    • Copy and paste image -> problem
    • Search mutliple notes: good
  • Affine
    • Write, Draw and Plan All at Once
    • Notion + Miro (pageless feature)
    • Draw feature
    • Support MARKDOWN syntax
    • Search feature is not GOOD
  • Siyuan-Note
    • Like notion
    • flash card feature
    • Easy to deploy via docker
    • Integrate the OpenAI (ChatGPT)
    • Simple, fast and reliable

I've tried these tools and they have some pros and cons.

My requirements are more specific:

  • Search feature: smart, simple
  • Simple, fast, self-hosting app
  • Markdown support (support code block)
  • Support multiple themes (optional)
  • Use the web + desktop app
  • Easy to screenshot and paste the image

Therefore, here is my rating

  • Logseg: 8/10
  • Affine: 7/10
  • Siyuan: 10/10

Finally, I chose Siyuan Note as my primary knowlege mangaement tool

How to setup Siyuan

Setup via docker

# create the workspace folder 
mkdir -p ~/Downloads/siyuan/workspace

# run service
docker run -d --restart always -v /home/hunglv/Downloads/siyuan/workspace:/siyuan/workspace -p 3001:6806 -u 1000:1000 b3log/siyuan --workspace=/siyuan/workspace/ --accessAuthCode=xxx

If curernt user is root, change the user id when runnning the docker container. Check the user id

id -u

Here is the new command

docker run -d --restart always -v /home/hunglv/Downloads/siyuan/workspace:/siyuan/workspace -p 3001:6806 -u 0:1000 b3log/siyuan --workspace=/siyuan/workspace/ --accessAuthCode=xxx