Zim Desktop Wiki is a graphical text editor for maintaining a personal collection of interconnected wiki pages. It combines the simplicity of a text editor with the organisation provided by a traditional wiki.
Each notebook consists of pages arranged in a hierarchy, with links connecting related information. Notes are stored as plain text files using wiki markup, making them accessible outside the application and straightforward to back up.
Zim is particularly useful for personal knowledge management, project notes, meeting records, research material and journals. It provides a flexible environment for organising information without requiring a database or web server.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create multiple notebooks containing hierarchically organised pages and subpages.
- Link pages using wiki-style hyperlinks, including links to pages that do not yet exist.
- Format text with headings, bold, italic, highlighting, lists and checkboxes.
- Attach files and embed images within notebook pages.
- Search notebook contents and locate pages using keywords, tags and structured search expressions.
- Organise information using tags, a tag cloud and configurable page indexes.
- Display backlinks showing which other pages reference the current page.
- Create daily, weekly, monthly or yearly journal pages using the Journal plugin.
- Manage tasks with priorities, tags, start dates, due dates and filtered task lists.
- Automatically save changes while editing and navigating between pages.
- Maintain revision history through integration with Git, Mercurial, Fossil or Bazaar.
- Extend editing capabilities with equation, diagram, table and source-view plugins.
- Insert screenshots, create bookmarks and navigate using configurable keyboard shortcuts.
- Export notebook content to HTML and other supported document formats.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: zim-wiki.org
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Developer: Jaap Karssenberg
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Zim is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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