Write about my vimwiki+nextcloud snippet

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_posts/2021-02-18-vimwiki-nextcloud.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title: Synchronizing notes with Nextcloud and Vimwiki
+tags:
+- nextcloud
+- vim
+---
+
+The quantity of things I need to keep track of or be responsible for has
+_exploded_ in the past few years, so much so that I have had to really focus on
+organizing my "personal knowledgebase." When I originally tried to spend some
+time improving my information management system, I found numerous different
+services offering to improve my productivity and to help me keep track of
+everything. Invariably many of these tools were web apps. In order to quickly and
+productively work with information, a `<textarea/>` in a web page is the choice
+of just about last resort. I recently revisited
+[Vimwiki](https://vimwiki.github.io/) and have been _quite_ satisfied both by
+my productivity boost and the benefits that come with having **raw
+text** to work with. The best benefit: easy synchronization of notes with [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/).
+
+
+By itself, Nextcloud is a great piece of software that I cannot recommend
+highly enough. The [Nextcloud Notes](https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/notes)
+application is a wonderful addon that has made a lot of good decisions. Notes
+are text files (`.txt` or `.md`) which are stored in the `Notes/` folder for
+the user, and the mobile and web versions of notes are just working with
+_text_. No special syntaxes to learn, no awkward file formats, just notes.
+
+
+With my Nextcloud instance and the [desktop
+client](https://nextcloud.com/clients/) auto-synchronizing folders in my
+`~/Nextcloud` directory, the little snippet of `.vimrc` that is required to
+have Vimwiki sync to Nextcloud is below:
+
+```
+" vimwiki set up
+let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': '~/Nextcloud/Notes/',
+                       \ 'syntax': 'markdown', 'auto_toc' : 1,
+                       \ 'ext': '.md'}]
+```
+
+Rather than using the `.vimwiki` extension, this is instructing to write my
+Vimwiki files out as Markdown. Once files are written or updated to
+`~/Nextcloud/Notes`, the desktop client will sync those automatically. When I
+edited notes on my phone, those are also synchronized back to my workstation
+where I can continue editing them in Vimwiki.
+
+The Nextcloud Notes web and mobile application doesn't really understand the
+inter-page links used by Vimwiki, but that has not been a problem for me thus
+far. My "mobile" or non-Vimwiki workflow is typically centered around a single
+note, whereas my local Vimwiki-based workflow has me rapidly navigating through
+different documents linked together from within Vim.
+
+If you're looking to get into Vimwiki, I found [this
+cheatsheet](http://thedarnedestthing.com/vimwiki%20cheatsheet) helpful. After a
+couple months of steady usage,my personal knowledgebase has been growing
+rapidly to include work related notes, runbooks, project plans, shopping lists,
+and all manner of information. This approach might not be for everybody, but if like me you find yourself using vi keybindings in every app that provides it, Vimwiki might be for you! :)

tag/nextcloud.md

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+layout: tag_page
+title: "Tag: nextcloud"
+tag: nextcloud
+robots: noindex
+---