Foam: personal knowledge management on VS Code and GitHub, README overview
The README presents Foam as a VS Code and GitHub based system for linked Markdown notes.
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Source: https://github.com/foambubble/foam
What it supplies: The README presents Foam as a VS Code and GitHub based system for linked Markdown notes.
Useful for: - Link notes with wikilinks and view a graph.
- Publish notes to the web from a GitHub repository.
First action: - Create a repository from foam-template and clone it into VS Code.
- Install the recommended extensions when prompted.
Prerequisites and limits: It needs VS Code and a GitHub account for the template route. The README asks for a high tolerance for alpha-grade software.
- Foam is a work in progress and some features might break.
- It depends on VS Code as the editor.
Source-documented: MIT license.
Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on opening, features, getting-started and licence README text only; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.
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