These instructions are specific to Mac & Linux with Homebrew but the concept works on any Unix system with minor tweaks.

Setup

1. Install Neovim

brew update
brew install neovim

You can now launch Neovim with the nvim command.

2. Install vim-plug

The cleanest way to manage plugins. Widely supported, no ceremony.

sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
       https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

3. Create your Neovim config

Create the config file:

mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/
nvim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

Paste in the following. This enables spellcheck, installs vim-plug, installs the sonokai colour scheme, and configures Vimwiki to use Markdown stored at ~/Documents/Notes.

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.txt,*.md setlocal spell spelllang=en_us

set nocompatible
filetype plugin on
syntax on
call plug#begin()
Plug 'vimwiki/vimwiki'
Plug 'sainnhe/sonokai'
call plug#end()
let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': '~/Documents/Notes',
                      \ 'syntax': 'markdown', 'ext': '.md'}]

let g:sonokai_style = 'maia'
let g:sonokai_better_performance = 1

colorscheme sonokai

4. Install the plugins

From inside Neovim, run:

:PlugInstall

This opens a split and installs everything declared in your config. Done.

Reference

Key bindings

Resources

• vim-plug
• vimwiki
• sonokai