Vimwiki Plugin For Vim Research Management on Arch Linux

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so this video is gonna be about vin wiki family ki is a really cool plugin that you can put into them and it makes a wiki now with a bunch of the other plugins I have from larb z-- and in general dealing with markdown you know the compiler to make it into a PDF and now with vim wiki and markdown preview it's just a really great system for creating documents and basically a giant wiki page of all of your knowledge so what do you need to make this happen so if I go to the Marcy you're gonna need this package vimla key and the github is fam wiki so then wiki is really cool because it'll make you a directory in your home directory and in here all you need to do is put an index dot markdown file and works the markdown files but you do index and what the cheat code I'm using is I never want to have to search for my index file and I don't want to have to activate it from the command line only I was like what if I want to use VI FM like I am here I made index the first letter is capitalized so it is the first file at the top and every other file is lowercase so it's always gonna be lower so when I open up index you'll see I have there's these large like heading areas I haven't really filled this in too much because you know I just haven't gotten to it yet but I have all these areas and each of these is a link now in markdown you can have links to all kinds of stuff you can have links to other documents in your computer and you can have links to external URLs but what vim wiki does is it takes these URLs like this one html5 I have some notes on html5 and you just see it has a document named html5 that's all it is it's just the link the documents so when I hit enter and here's the power of vim looky if I hit enter on these links it'll actually take me to that link you can see the file path down here is vim wiki and that html5 now I have other stuff on html5 because I have nested things now if I want to go back I can hit backspace it takes me back up here so let's just say the html5 is a homeless subject with a lot of stuff and so this is just like all right here I'm in my technology header and I got some stuff on programming and then here's a language I'm gonna go to that language and now if I just had all my notes here that might not be you know I got a lot of notes and different things there's a lot of stuff about a language so I might go and have different you know notes from different days different subject materials but I got nested documents so if I now go into these notes somehow tu-tu-tu-tu-tu I'm not sure what it's doing there but if I went to one of my notes and here's one now to take me into them and so then I have all my notes on this language and whatever I want to look at and I can even have you know external URLs like this one and so that will open and it opens up the web page there we go now I can backspace all the way back to the front and that's it so that's really cool I can have this nested to the millionth degree wiki document that has all of my subject matter stuff that I want to look at and it's all conveniently located now how do we make all these relative files it sounds like a lot to set up it's not so if I went into my vim wiki page right here and let's just say there's nothing in here named test so you can see that there's nothing in here so let's do tests all right so now it's just a piece of text so what what does that do but here's the thing when you have a piece of text right here and I mean in normal mode if I hit enter it turns it into a link if I go over here still nothing named test but when I enter that you know it says test MD so I have my marked out document still nothing in here but when I put something in here save the document that is when it will actually create it now let's do something different the backspace let's change this file pathway to a directory let's just say we have a test directory and we put a slash and then we have this test file so it'll be a markdown document named test in the test directory now if you can see here I don't have any directories in here but if you still wanted your files separated by directory which this you don't really need to because it's all laid out here unless you're gonna look for if you if you want to do with that way you could I think it's a little bit extra more more extra work and this is perfectly adequate for my needs but if you wanted to do this you could actually do directories to hold your notes but power them look you don't have to do that you have to organize anything you just put it in the wiki and you follow the paths but let's say we want to add that all right let's see what happens ah we don't have that directory so it says do you want to make that directory vimla key slash test yes we do here we go here's a file now it's part nothing in there because we haven't saved the file yet if I insert some text save it okay we've written the file so then when I go up to the test directory oh there's our markdown document now it's doing this because I have it open in the other one but it's good at that space there we go that's it so if in wiki is really cool and I really like it because it's a way of having all of your notes in a single location but you have a wiki type document you can break it down into larger to smaller subject group areas and I really appreciate that so all I had to do was install this plugin and now I have my key so what I did with with this is that now since I have these documents I can also do leader C so come a C for me anyways to have the used documents compiled to PDF so then I can do leader P to preview it and there's the document now I can also do a liter a for auto compiler liter P to preview it and I can go over here then and then we can also have this with our VM looking documents I think this is really cool so I really love vim wiki I use it at home and I even found a way to jerry-rig it to work on a Windows system so Windows I don't like using vim on windows very much but I found a way to make it work with nerd tree and vim wiki and whatnots so it's somewhat functional and not terrible but I do love them and I do love this vim wiki so I really recommend this I love doing this for note-taking and just general information hoarding of whatever you need to to know yeah use vim lucky that's all peace