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This little database has historical events, battles, names, and population totals, because those things are the boring research questions you need to answer for Vampire campaigns and similar.

The database is in plain-text, so you can edit it with notepad or vim. But it’s also a relational database. Make of that what you will.

Right now it mostly focuses on Belgrade.

PRs very welcome.

  • macniel@feddit.org
    3·
    2 months ago

    Mhm when I open that site on mobile I can’t get past the login screen, because I don’t have an account.

      • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        Depends how one divides note-taking and wiki/knowledge db. I think it’s exactly what you are achieving here but would allow for more connectivity between notes

        Something happens somewhere  
* tags: 1600, invention, Belgrade  
* [[Organisation]] used [[technology]] to discover [[thing]]

        Then each of tags and those in [[]] would have their own pages, with all the references mentioned. You can also enter queries in the body of a note, to have tables with references. Insides are plain markdown, so still text-based and easy to modify. And one could browse the db on the phone. Logseq is open-source too

        • Andonome@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          14 days ago

          would allow for more connectivity between notes

          Databases don’t have an upper limit of connections.

          I’m sure both work fine, but this thing’s database-first, as it’s meant to deal with queries like ‘Events in Belgrade, between 1200 and 1450’, or ‘random male name from Catalan in 1520’.

          • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            Yes, but this thing is limited by tags. All the tags you have to put in manually

            From your example in the link:

            Century: 16
Year: 1521
Location: Belgrade
Tag: War
Event: Siege of Belgrade: Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent conquers Belgrade.

            Unless you add Sultan into Tags, you have to query event description too in order to find all the details about Sultan. In Logseq it would be enough to use [[Sultan Suleiman]] in the text and it would behave like another tag

            • Andonome@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              2·
              14 days ago

              Those are both manual tagging. One uses tag: sultan, the other uses [[sultan]].

              And you can word-search both of them for Sultan.

              Of course, if you have use for a WoD wiki, feel free to convert it. I assume Logseq will let people collaborate just as well with git.