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neuron

Future-proof note-taking and publishing based on Zettelkasten (superseded by Emanote: https://github.com/srid/emanote)

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What it is

Future-proof note-taking and publishing based on Zettelkasten (superseded by Emanote: https://github.com/srid/emanote)

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Where it is used

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jq is honestly one of my favorite tools ever. Super powerful yet simple. I've written some relatively complex programs with it, e.g. this one [1] I just wrote to manipulate the…

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Observed mentions: 2020-06-28 20:16:20 UTC to 2021-10-18 13:12:17 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Jun 2020	2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jul 2020	2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
Aug 2020	2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2020	2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Oct 2020	2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Nov 2020	2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2020	2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
Feb 2021	2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2021	2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2021	2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 2021	2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 2021	2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2021	2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2021	2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2021	2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2021	2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

What Hacker News says

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nextaccountic·Oct 18, 2021

So, I want to share an alternative: https://github.com/srid/neuron It's also just a bunch of markdown files And, uhhh.. I just found out this: > Neuron is being superceded by Emanote: https://github.com/srid/emanote Cool

In Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

BernardTatin·Jan 28, 2021Submission

Neuron: Future-proof note-taking and publishing based on Zettelkasten

2 points · Open discussion

nextaccountic·Jan 17, 2021

Here's a Zettelkasten CLI manager: https://github.com/srid/neuron "neuron is a future-proof command-line app for managing your plain-text Zettelkasten notes." Here are some sites that use it: https://neuron.zettel.page/examples.html (ps: I'm not affiliated to neuron, just found it on the web and have been following since)

In My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

maddyboo·Oct 29, 2020

Neuron [1] is an exciting new Zettelkasten project. In short, it’s a CLI tool that transforms a directory of markdown files with some special syntax into a static site. A couple of highlights: It’s got support for tags, links, backlinks; it can generate trees of links to notes matching a given tag; the static site has search functionality; there are editor plugins for vim and Emacs. The CLI has the ability to output your entire Zettelkasten graph as JSON, which you can then parse and use to write scripts. I’ve already used this feature to write a few tools for myself that greatly improve my note taking workflow. Behind the scenes, Neuron uses Pandoc to convert the markdown into HTML. There is talk of a feature that would allow the user to write Pandoc filters which would essentially be programs that transform the Neuron AST prior to it be

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ing rendered with Pandoc. Such a feature would open up tons of opportunities for customization, e.g. you could write rules to parse custom syntax in your markdown files and generate inline HTML. I’ve already written a tool that does something similar [2] without the use of a Pandoc filter by operating directly on the generated HTML files, but a Pandoc filter would greatly improve the process. All of your notes are simply markdown files stored on your local machine, so you’re free to do whatever you’d like with them: store them in git, write scripts to generate them, whatever. The author is simultaneously developing Cerveau [3] which is a hosted web interface that allows you to edit your notes remotely via a web browser. It transparently syncs your edits to a GitHub repository. Unfortunately, Cerveau is currently closed source, but I believe the author has expressed interest in opening it up if he’s able to get enough GitHub sponsors to sustain its development. If it matters to you, Neuron is written in Haskell and the project makes heavy use of Nix. 1: https://github.com/srid/neuron 2: https://github.com/srid/neuron/issues/228#issuecomment-67029... 3: https://www.cerveau.app

In Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method

harporoeder·Sep 17, 2020Submission

Future-proof and simple-to-use notes system based on Zettelkasten

2 points · Open discussion

maddyboo·Jul 3, 2020

Neuron is a new Zettelkasten project that shows a lot of promise. The developer is very active and responsive. I like that it is an editor-independent cli tool, with plugins currently for Vim and Emacs. https://neuron.zettel.page/ https://github.com/srid/neuron

In Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

maddyboo·Jul 1, 2020Recommendation phrase

jq is honestly one of my favorite tools ever. Super powerful yet simple. I've written some relatively complex programs with it, e.g. this one [1] I just wrote to manipulate the output from neuron [2] to generate index files based on tags. It's probably overkill/not as efficient as it could be, but I wanted to be able to expand upon it later. I think once you grok the basics, which can be a bit confusing at first, you can accomplish some amazing things with the help of a few of the more advanced features like reduce, to_entries/from_entries, etc. I really wish it was more actively developed, I feel like it actually has potential to be a semi-general-purpose functional programming language. 1: https://gist.github.com/b50a047115d1dcf1f15c16a6f7b71e3c 2: https://github.com/srid/neuron

In Mastering Jq: Part 1

TheMatten·Jun 28, 2020

One more interesting tool for managing Zettlekasten-like notes is Neuron (https://github.com/srid/neuron). Static websites it generates show relations between viewed notes (scroll to top of https://neuron.zettel.page/2011506.html), support both "branching" and "non-branching" links, where the former provide structure for auto-generated index of zettels (https://neuron.zettel.page/2011504.html), plus they have integrated search and the whole app is pretty easy to set up using Nix. I really like the nicely polished interface and fact that it tries to have minimal effect on note format.

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