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by crazykitty
it took me a lot of relearning, but it was pretty straightforward. First what I did was delete obsidian, then I found the right mix of terminal utilities that felt right to me.
I used to use a mix of tagging notes and a solid filesystem hierarchy (I recommend this.) now I just use the filesystem because of what I talk about later in this blog post.
For writing I use neovim since it has a lot of support via plugins, fun fact I don’t really use a lot of the macros that you can do in it but it’s really cool imo that it’s supported.
For viewing all of my many markdown documents I used to use glow for the longest time but now I use render-markdown.nvim because glow can’t render images in kitty (this is the terminal I use).
Just for fun and for general privacy I encrypt all of my notes via pgp using gpg.nvim.
When you combine this with render-markdown the markdown won’t render because neovim will think “this is a gpg file.” To fix this all we need to do is add this code snippet to init.lua
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "BufRead", "BufNewFile" }, {
pattern = "*.md.gpg",
command = "setfiletype markdown",
})
Since everything is encrypted I can’t just search for tags inside of the note files themselves via grep or ripgrep, so now I manually go look for filenames using yazi.
However, yazi doesn’t open neovim when you try to edit the gpg, it will instead try to open a default application for me it opened it up in firefox xD. I fixed this by writing this and saving it as ~/.config/yazi/yazi.toml
[open]
prepend_rules = [
{ name = "*.gpg", use = "edit" },
]