Note Taking Software
Consider using Markdown systems:
On Android:
On Desktop:
Less attractive
- Obsidian
- Roam Research
VS Code Plugins and Extensions
Used
- Markdown Preview Enhanced to have some convenience tools, including export. To render citations using pandoc and BetterBibTex for Zotero
- Synonym Provider (currently used)
- WordCounter - Visual Studio Marketplace A versatile word counter.
- Todo Tree generates a TODO list in theExplorer panel but does not actually work for me for some reason.
- Alphabetical Sorter A way to sort alphabetically, for example for manual bibliographies
- Markdown Table Table management discussed in relationship to Dendron.
- Markdown PDF Export markdown to PDF and other formats.
- vscode-reveal Presentation system Reveal.js can work from markdown files and is pretty good. See Discord
- Markdown Table Prettifier table formatting
- Open in Typora
- Markdown Footnote Footnote peek preview, jump to number and footnote body text, command to insert.
- LTeX – LanguageTool grammar/spell checking - Visual Studio Marketplace Language Tool based spelling and grammar. The dictionary is not great.
- Spell Right - Visual Studio Marketplace Very good native OS spelling on Windows but does not work in vscode 1.66 last checked.
Not used
- Markmap - Visual Studio Marketplace
- Citation Picker for Zotero
- Pandoc Citer this extension provides autocompletion of citations stored in a bibtex file, for use with pandoc-markdown documents. From Discord.
- From Markdown to Zotero exporting live Word citations from Markdown using BetterBibTex and pandoc.
- Todo+ a powerful task management extension that does not seem to be compatible with Foam.
- Thesaurus thesaurus integration for vscode. (not used)
- Auto Time Stamp provides an automatic time stamp on save.
- Todo MD recommended by the Markdown Memo author and looks good. To try.
- Mzettel README recommended by the Markdown Memo author to create unique IDs for notes. To try.
- Favourites an extension that lets the developer mark resources (files or folders) as favorites, so they can be easily accessed (in a panel).
- CriticMarkup for Visual Studio Code Language markup called CriticMarkup for tracking changes in plain text files.
- Auto Fold An extension that automatically folds text such as long JSON citations for convenience.
- My Time - Visual Studio Marketplace An extension for managing time spent working, recommended by users for Dendron
- Excel to Markdown table - Visual Studio Marketplace Paste Excel data.
Other
- Markdown IDE Can refactor links and rename link on file rename. Supposed to be compatible with Foam.
- nb · command line and local web plain text note-taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application
Alternatives for VS Code
Markdown Memo this supports links and is an alternative to Foam.
- Maybe try Markdown Memo.
Dendron Hierarchical note taking in VS Code. Looks convincing and has some reasonable description of the background logic.
Backlinks