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Similar here. For personal use, I don't bother with the extra hassle of wiki software, but just maintain Markdown files in my `~/wiki/` directory.

For example, my notes about Stable Fusion are in `~/wiki/stable-fusion.md`.

Since I have my Emacs Markdown mode tweaked to be semi-WYSIWYG, the only downside is that links between pages is a little messier than if I used wiki software. (I might tweak Emacs a bit more, to have link text in square brackets navigate to the right filename.)

Someday, these files might end up in wiki software, but I'm in no hurry, and I'm capturing and accessing the info now.

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Could you elaborate more on your Emacs Markdown tweaks? It sounds very interesting!

Face tweaks alone make it a lot more pleasant. For a live table-of-contents sidebar you can toggle on and off, I use `imenu-list`, and there's also some face tweaks to make that more muted.

    (custom-set-faces
     ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
     ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
     ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
     ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.

     [...]

     '(markdown-blockquote-face ((t (:inherit nil :foreground "gray50"))))
     '(markdown-bold-face ((t (:inherit nil :slant normal :weight bold))))
     '(markdown-header-delimiter-face ((t (:inherit markdown-markup-face))))
     '(markdown-header-face ((t (:inherit nil :weight bold :family "sans"))))
     '(markdown-header-face-1 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :height 2.0))))
     '(markdown-header-face-2 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :height 1.6))))
     '(markdown-header-face-3 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :height 1.2))))
     '(markdown-header-face-4 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :height 1.1))))
     '(markdown-header-face-5 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :height 1.0))))
     '(markdown-html-attr-name-face ((t (:inherit markdown-markup-face))))
     '(markdown-html-attr-value-face ((t (:inherit markdown-markup-face))))
     '(markdown-html-tag-name-face ((t (:inherit markdown-markup-face))))
     '(markdown-inline-code-face ((t (:inherit nil :foreground "green4"))))
     '(markdown-italic-face ((t (:inherit nil :slant italic :weight normal))))
     '(markdown-language-keyword-face ((t (:foreground "gray80"))))
     '(markdown-link-face ((t (:inherit nil :foreground "blue3" :underline t))))
     '(markdown-pre-face ((t (:inherit markdown-inline-code-face :background "#f4fff4"))))
     '(markdown-reference-face ((t (:weight bold))))
     '(markdown-strike-through-face ((t (:inherit nil :strike-through t))))
     '(markdown-table-face ((t (:inherit nil :background "#fafafa"))))
     '(markdown-url-face ((t (:inherit markdown-markup-face))))

     [...]

     '(imenu-list-entry-face ((t (:family "Sans Serif"))))
     '(imenu-list-entry-face-0 ((t (:inherit imenu-list-entry-face))))
     '(imenu-list-entry-face-1 ((t (:inherit imenu-list-entry-face))))
     '(imenu-list-entry-face-2 ((t (:inherit imenu-list-entry-face))))
     '(imenu-list-entry-face-3 ((t (:inherit imenu-list-entry-face))))
     '(imenu-list-entry-subalist-face-0 ((t (:inherit imenu-list-entry-face-0))))
     '(imenu-list-entry-subalist-face-1 ((t (:inherit imenu-list-entry-face-1))))

     [...])

Do you sync that folder across devices? If so, how?

I tend to use Git (or earlier VCS) to sync much of my homedir across systems, for disconnected operation.

This doesn't support my smartphone, but that's OK for my current needs. (If I someday need to access this super-minimal wiki from my smartphone, without my laptop, I'll consider syncing it with Git, or moving to self-hosted wiki Web UI that's maybe as a veneer over keeping the wiki files maximally accessible as local files on my real computers.)

Not OP but here how I might do -- Synching, Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive, etc.

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