Foam
Personal knowledge management on top of VS Code
Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system built as a set of extensions and conventions for Visual Studio Code. It turns a folder of Markdown files into a linked, navigable knowledge base.
Key features
- Wiki-style links
- Graph visualization
- Plain Markdown files
- VS Code integration
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Mature project with 17.3k GitHub stars
- Written in TypeScript
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