I recently discovered “Howm” [1] (the “Handy Own Wiki Mode”), which is a personal wiki system for Emacs. Surprisingly, it is slightly
older than Org-mode – although it now works great with Org files – and is still actively maintained by the author.
After giving it a try, I now feel that I prefer it’s simplicity over newer systems like Org Roam and Denote, while having some similarities to e.g. Deft (like fulltext as-you-type search).
It also offers some unique features of its own, like “comefrom links” as opposed to conventional “goto links”, and that most Howm links are actually just syntactic sugar for searches.
The submitted link [2] is to a third-party documentation of the project, which I found more useful than the official documentation to get started :)
[1]: https://kaorahi.github.io/howm/
[2]: https://github.com/Emacs101/howm-manual
After giving it a try, I now feel that I prefer it’s simplicity over newer systems like Org Roam and Denote, while having some similarities to e.g. Deft (like fulltext as-you-type search).
It also offers some unique features of its own, like “comefrom links” as opposed to conventional “goto links”, and that most Howm links are actually just syntactic sugar for searches.
The submitted link [2] is to a third-party documentation of the project, which I found more useful than the official documentation to get started :)
[1]: https://kaorahi.github.io/howm/
[2]: https://github.com/Emacs101/howm-manual