Zim (software)


Zim is a graphical text editor designed to maintain a collection of locally stored wiki-pages, a personal wiki. Each wiki-page can contain things like text with simple formatting, links to other pages, attachments, and images. Additional plugins, such as an equation editor and spell-checker, are also available. The wiki-pages are stored in a folder structure in plain text files with wiki formatting.
Zim is written in Python using GTK+ libraries. It is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Features

Features include:
Zim can be extended with plugins. These include:
Several Linux distributions include Zim in their repositories, in particular Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Fedora. Also FreeBSD, OpenBSD and OpenSUSE include Zim in their ports collections.
The core features of Zim depend on python, gtk and python-gtk modules and thus Zim can be easily ported to any platform where these modules are available. In particular, Zim has been ported to the Microsoft Windows operating system and works very well with a native feel. It has also been ported to Mac OS, but as of 2015 there were still a few issues, primarily being no native UI integration and the procedure to install being involving. There were attempts and plans to port to Android.