Foam17.5k

foambubble/foam

What is Foam?

Build a personal knowledge base of linked markdown notes directly inside VS Code. It has 17,471 stars on GitHub and ranks #59 in Productivity & Notes.

GitHub description: A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

Platforms

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