# Discourse as a personal-wiki note-taking markdown-editor local app **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [January 29, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-personal-wiki-note-taking-markdown-editor-local-app/293289 "2024-01-29T12:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![lisandro\_iaffar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lisandro_iaffar/32/315816_2.png) [@lisandro\_iaffar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisandro_iaffar)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-personal-wiki-note-taking-markdown-editor-local-app/293289/1 "2024-01-29T12:32:35Z")
Hello! 🙂 So, I have just spent the **entire** weekend going deep down into the rabbit-hole of looking for good markdown editors, and/or a good personal wiki app, and/or a good note-taking app. After spending an unhealthy amount of time mostly due to my absolute disbelief at not being able to find **anything** that can do at least a mediocre job, I found myself permanently referring to discourse as the parameter of what I would like any of those apps to be. So I thought… why not? Why not facilitate the possibility to use discourse as a local desktop app for all of those applications? It excels at everything, and for God believe me, I have been through hundreds of apps, looking at everyone of them, looking at all of the the possible enhancements/customizations (yes, including emacs and vim) of each to make sure I wasn’t missing the obvious but I was unable to find anything functional (many open-source apps that where hitting the mark like Zettlr and Marktext have the adorable tendency to randomly and inadvertently **delete your work** after saving, something that has been reported in the repos and that I had the joy to experiment myself while trying to do actual work). I know that what I’m proposing is completely outside of the targeted market but that’s also why it can do no arm to business while helping to increase widespread adoption. I also know that one can just host a discourse instance for personal use, but that’s an hindrance for non-technical users. It’s all there, I would love to be able to have in my personal desktop the capabilities of my forum (indeed, all of the notes related to the subject of my forum, I take them there just because it’s more practical to write). Discourse could effortlessly replace **all** of the half-assed options that are out there. Would you? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-personal-wiki-note-taking-markdown-editor-local-app/293289)._