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Zim Wiki Community Documentation

This is a repository with community documentation for the zim desktop wiki.

This wiki is about zim, it is not a zim wiki itself.

Do NOT use this wiki to ask questions, we have a mailing list for that.

How to upload an image to this wiki.

Content

Third party add-ons and tools

• Plugins
• Custom Tools
• Conversion Scripts
• Templates

How to

• Install the full Zim Desktop Wiki Suite on Windows
• How to Build Zim Desktop Wiki on Windows
• Install Zim under Cygwin
• Install latest zim version from PPA on Ubuntu
• Workaround to start ZIM on OS X Sierra
• Set the language for the portable version
• Sync Notebooks between computers
• Use a Remote Notebook
• Store notebooks in an encrypted folder
• Autostart zim in the system tray
• Create tables using graphviz (deprecated)
• Create a table using LibreOffice, OpenOffice or Excel
• Set a dark theme and background
• Install spell checking on windows
• Install gtksourceview2 on Windows and Linux for Source View plugin
• Install on OS X using Platypus
• Mac OSX App (wrapper)
• Launch .txt File In Windows Using Zim or WordPad
• Define custom keybindings/shortcuts
• Fix Fuzzy or Blurry Text in Windows
• Fallback Font and Larger Checkbox
• Create Hyperlinks to Outlook Messages in Zim

Use zim to

• Build a Website
• Build a Responsive Web Site
• Host a website on GitLab Pages
• Getting Things Done
• Store encrypted and synchronized passwords

Potential use cases

• QDA Analysis

Discussions

• Use R Markdown formatting
• Android application
• Similar projects

Other resources

• Homepage
• Manual
• Bug tracker
• Source code
• Channel #zim-wiki on Freenode IRC network (Access from your web browser at https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23zim-wiki).