OurBigBook Docs
Static wiki generators: this is perhaps the best way of classifying this project :-)
- github.com/gollum/gollum: already has a local server editor! But no WYSIWYG nor live preview. Git integration by default, so when you save on the UI already generates a Git commit. We could achieve that with: github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git, would be really nice. Does not appear to have built-in static generation:Does not appear to check that any links are correct.
- github.com/wcchin/markypydia
- obsidian.md/ closed source, Markdown with cross file reference + a SaaS. Appears to require payment for any publishing. 28k followers 2021: twitter.com/obsdmd. Founders are likely Canadians of Asian descent from Waterloo University: www.linkedin.com/in/lishid/ | www.linkedin.com/in/ericaxu/ also working in parallel on dynalist.io/ 2020 review at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2fOQRNSxc Has offline editor with side-by-side preview. Compares with Roam and Notion, but can't find any public publishing on those, seem to be enterprise only things.
Static book generators:
- github.com/rstudio/bookdown, bookdown.org/. Very similar feature set to what we want!!! Transpiles to markdown, and then goes through Pandoc: bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/pandoc.html, thus will never run on browser without huge translation layers. But does have an obscene amount of output formats however.
- Hugo. Pretty good, similar feature set to ours. But Go based, so hard on browser, and adds adhoc features on top of markdown once again
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki
- github.com/hplgit/doconce
- www.gwern.net/About#source is pretty interesting, uses github.com/jaspervdj/Hakyll/ + some custom stuff.
- github.com/JerrySievert/bookmarkdown
- www.gitbook.com/
- github.com/rust-lang/mdBook. Impressive integrated search feature. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust.
- github.com/facebook/docusaurus React + markdown based, written in TypeScript. So how can it be build fast? Gotta benchmark.
- vimdoc: vimdoc.sourceforge.net/ They do have perfectly working Internal cross file references, see any page e.g. vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/pattern.html.
- typst: github.com/typst/typst An attempt at a LaTeX killer. Has its own typesetting engine, does not simply transpile to LaTeX. Meant to be faster and simpler to write. No HTML output as of writing: github.com/typst/typst/issues/721
Less related but of interest, similar philosophy to what Ciro wants, but no explicitly reusable system: