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Sorry to highjack this thread, but I've been looking for an open-source alternative that can edit .md files, and sync them to a Github repo. I know my IDE can do this - but just wondered if a writing-specific app existed that was also open source?

(if it's relevant: its for private thoughts that I'd like to just keep in a Github repo because its 1. Free and 2. Not going away anytime soon)

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Logseq is free and open source https://logseq.com/ You have to sync yourself though (for now). You can also publish to github pages.

My only issues are: they are focusing more on the desktop and (now) mobile apps, instead of the web app. You can't quickly share items to the app or web version to quickly save links, etc. They did have github integration built into the web version but are abandoning that to work on their own paid sync solution that isn't out yet. But you can manually sync the files as I mentioned.

For now I'm mainly sticking with a wiki but keeping an eye on developments to logseq and similar open source apps like Athens Research, Bangle, etc. See this twitter list of different knowledge management tools: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1396562498002825240

On mobile I use GitJournal for this - it's an excellent app which I'm really happy with.

On desktop, I just use VS Code.

You can use obsidian.md with a plug-in for that.

> I've been looking for an open-source alternative that can edit .md files, and sync them to a Github repo.

Obsidian is not open-source tho.

logseq is open-source

I am developing a neovim plugin that can do this but it is not ready yet.

I think Dendron has the features you are looking for.

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