The Backlinks Explorer lets you find all notes that link to a specific note. Write your content in markdown, use ] for internal links, and explore your content with an interactive graph. Built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub, Foam is early but already powerful. Watch the demo video or see some screenshots. There is also a modified version called DocuRoam, which supports transclusion out of the box, as well as daily summaries, revision history, and markdown. Install one of the inclusion plugins to easily embed a page inside another. Great community and fairly simple to install (if you have ever installed WordPress it’s a similar process). This is a modular wiki which supports backlinks by default. If you’re okay with being a bit more of an early adopter and have your install fail because of some incompatibilities, Org-roam is almost an exact replica of Roam. It looks great but unstable, so I haven’t installed it. After watching this amazing video by Matt Williams I was both excited about the software and defeated by the idea of going through all these hoops just to get to try it. You can also install TiddlyMap separately. Want the knowledge graph? TiddlyRoam combines TiddlyWiki, TiddlyBlink, and TiddlyMap so you have most of the pure text-based functionalities of Roam as well as a live map of all the nodes in your knowledge graph. It’s better to have a basic understanding of how the command line works to set it up, but then you’re good to go. Because it’s just one HTML + JS file, you also have many options to host it in the cloud or sync it with Dropbox. It’s completely open source, private, offline, and customisable.

Some people even use it as a static site generator.

You can keep on using ] to link to pages or create new pages, so you won’t be lost. Linking to an inexisting page will create a new one, backlinks are shown as references below each note, you can open notes side by side, easily search through pages, and more. Based on TiddlyWiki, this is a solid alternative. Two engineers created NeoOffice in 2003 when they made OpenOffice run natively on OS X for the first time. With NeoOffice, you can view, edit, and save OpenOffice documents, LibreOffice documents, and simple Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. NeoOffice is an office suite for Mac that is based on OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

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