Looksyk is a simple personal knowledge platform with a focus on clean markdown files, simple queries and a journal.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Local Storage: Your information is always exclusively in Markdown files (currently in testing: sync with a git repository).
- Fast and Efficient: Scans and indexes large knowledge bases in under a second.
- Simple Queries: Use case based query language.
- Runs local on your computer.
- Your information is always exclusively in the Markdown files. No replication in a database or similar. The files can be easily synchronized with the build-in git-sync other sync tools.
- Based on blocks, but these can also be larger, contain entire chapters and multiple queries.
- Multiple instances of Looksyk with different knowledge bases can be opened in parallel.
- Developer-centric file support:
- Insert code blocks with syntax highlighting.
- Save and display existing code files in your pages with syntax highlighting.
- Save and display backups of websites in your pages (with single-file-downloader).
- Insert videos, audio files, images, text files and PDFs.
- Custom styling of markdown content with html and css and support for custom themes.
- Pages.
- Journal (infinite scrolling page, single day page, journal overview page).
- Todos.
- Content assist:
- Creating links, inserting queries, tags, templates and media.
- View (and link) media:
- Images.
- PDFs.
- HTML Files (e.g. SingleFile saved pages from SingleFile Firefox or SingleFile Chrome).
- Video (html5 video player).
- Audio (html5 audio player).
- Code (with highlighting).
- Text files.
- Templates.
- Queries (placeholders for dynamic content):
- Query blocks.
- Query todos / visualize progress of todos.
- Query page hierarchy.
- Query references.
- Render video, audio, images, text files and code files (with highlighting).
- Search across all pages and journals.
- Delete and rename pages (and update references across all pages and journals).
- Favourites.
- History: Show, drop, navigate to previous and next page. Keyboard shortcuts available.
- Custom styling of markdown content with html and css.
- Sync your graph with a git repository. Combine this feature with a docker deployment on a server to have a simple web version of your knowledge base.
Website: github.com/SebastianRzk/Looksyk
Support:
Developer: SebastianRzk
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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