
If you have a large corpus of notes without any metadata then they might as well be written in a foreign language for all the good they will be to you. So how can you locate an item of information? It is all in the metadata, the information about information. The art of a good note taking program is providing facilities for the user to be able to locate an item within their notes even though they have forgotten almost everything about it.

Things like references (links), indexes (tags) and categories have been used in computer programs to ease the location of information. Over the years librarians have come up with many tools for dealing with this problem and many of these tools have been adapted for the digital era. This is a problem which has existed for as long as there have been collections of documents. See the configuration section in the readme on where to find configuration files and how to get plugins to recognize external dependencies.If you have a large collection of notes then there will be times when you cannot find the note which you want to find even though you know that it exists somewhere within the collection of documents. It supports macOS High Sierra up to macOS Monterey. Older versions and 32-bit systems are not supported by this installer.Ī macOS app can be found here. It might work on Windows 7 as well, but this is not tested. This installer is built and tested on Windows 10 in a 64-bit environment.

There is also a PPA with updates for zim hereĪ Windows installer can also be found here. Unofficial ubuntu package (.deb) can be found here More detailed instructions to build from source can be found in the README.md file which is included with the sources In order to compile and install the source run: Most Linux distributions have standard packages for these bindings, if your distribution has these packages installing them will probably be much easier than compiling them manually.

This program depends on a number of prerequisites.
