prowl -- personal knowledge base #

prowl is a tool for creating personal knowledge bases in djot. a markdown-based markup language. a quickstart guide to markdown users

prowl is similar to other projects:

• org-roam
• roam
• obsidian.md
• and many more

why should I use prowl? #

• prowl differs to others with its approach. prowl is editor-agnostic due to its support for Language Server Protocol. and it should work in most editors that can use lsp servers
• prowl files are regular djot files, human readable and writeable
• prowl is opensource, licensed under AGPLv3 or later
• automatic suggestions for files inside the current workspace
• quick fixes to broken links

requirements #

different parts of the prowl repository require different dependencies:

• prowl language server - cargo
• prowl vscode extension - nodejs
• repository build script - lua

building #

for local builds use the build.lua script:

Usage: ./build.{lua,fnl} [options...] [targets...]
Options:
  -h, --help            Show this help message
  -D, --no-direnv       Disable direnv
Targets:
        all      -      Build all targets
        vscode   -      Build the VSCode extension
        server   -      Build the LSP+Web server