Foam

A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

2.0•1 review•

19 followers

A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

2.0•1 review•

19 followers

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Note and writing apps

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Knowledge base software

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Code editors

Foam is free, open source, and extremely extensible to suit your personal workflow. You own the information you create with Foam, and you’re free to share it, and collaborate on it with anyone you want.

Launch tags:Productivity•Notes•Developer Tools

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manifoldco

Hey, this is really cool. Do you have any ideas on the best way to support sync and potentially realtime editing/collaboration?

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6yr ago

Foam

Maker

@jevon Yes! My ideas are stubbed out in Foam's Recipes, but I just haven't had time to write them up yet: https://foambubble.github.io/foa... - For realtime collaboration: VS Code Live Share https://visualstudio.microsoft.c... (I already tried this, and the experience is magical!) - For long-term team collaboration: Give team access to GitHub workspace repo, push/pull. Foam can provide better tools for transparent sync via VS Code plugins - Accepting contributions from outside the team: GitHub PRs. There's already a VS Code plugin for GitHub, but I haven't tried it for Foam yet. This is a perfect example why I'm so excited about Foam! It's barely a week old, and it can already do more than most other note taking / writing tools thanks to the rich and powerful ecosystem. As features become better understood via user prototyping, they can first be added to documentation for others to take advantage of them, and once canonical use cases and workflows emerge, make them obvious and user friendly by building them into Foam.

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6yr ago

Standard Resume

This looks really cool! How is the data stored and accessed? Is it in a format that could easily be moved?

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6yr ago

Foam

Maker

@rileytomasek Thanks! The data is stored as markdown files on your own disk, and (if you choose) synced to a GitHub repo (or anywhere else you'd like, but currently the static site generation pipeline presumes GitHub). Files are just markdown, so they are easily consumable by other tools, and if not -- there are AST parsers for Markdown so writing your own conversion is pretty easy The ownership of your own data is encoded in Foam's principles: https://foambubble.github.io/foa...

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6yr ago

Standard Resume

@jevakallio nice. I love how you made this work with existing tools and data formats 👍.

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6yr ago

Foam

Maker

Hi I'm the maker of this product. I released it early to learn from others, so please send me feedback, ideas and contributions either here, or as issues and PRs on GitHub: https://github.com/foambubble/foam

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6yr ago