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Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

http://trello.com

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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post #21
post #17

Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

http://trello.com

I see trello more like a super TODO list, not so much as a repository of knowledge !

Does anyone use it that way ?

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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post #17

Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

Thanks, and good questions. Here's a first pass:

- Not yet: But I'm a big fan of Rich Hickey's thoughts on data and time if that gives any clues on where I'd like to take it (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values)

- Search function is very light just a client side search of the titles, but if people want it we'll probably build a server side full text search

- We've been debating different tagging schemes and actually built one out already but decided not to include it in the MVP until we get more feedback (let us know hello@faqt.co)

- Not yet, but we do want to build at least a minimal export functionality to give everyone peace of mind

- No API plans

- It's something we have to feel out, but it's followed closely my own use case where I need to store some information that I constantly refer to; self hosted is a thought but that automatically rules out most casual users. We'll see...

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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post #17

Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

there's simplenote, which is multi platform. Im waiting for markdown support on Android (it's there on iOS).

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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post #17

Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

Evernote, DEVONthink, and Google Docs are the big players.

There's also: http://are.na/, http://pinterest.com, http://www.dropmark.com/, https://kippt.com/, https://pinboard.in/, Wordpress or Tumblr (with the right theme) and there are 5+ more projects in this space announced over the past year of which I was aware at one time, but sadly I lost track of the list.

Not to mention, http://etherpad.org/ / http://piratepad.net, https://hackpad.com/, http://notepad.cc/, http://socrates.io/, http://quip.com, http://simplenote.com/, https://www.penflip.com/, http://snippi.com/ and the like share similar features.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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post #17

Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

This is macosx only but give DevonThink a go:

http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/overvie...

with the office version you get web access, hence accessable from anywhere.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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post #9

How can something which is _personal_ and supposed to be _lightweigth_ a web site? Do i understand right that my data is hosted on their servers? Oh well...

I think a web site is totally okay for this kind of application. Nowadays, I have always a browser open.

But a self-hosted version, for people whom privacy is important, would be great. Are there any self-hosted alternatives? Especially with a nice markdown editor...

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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post #29
post #9

How can something which is _personal_ and supposed to be _lightweigth_ a web site? Do i understand right that my data is hosted on their servers? Oh well...

I think a web site is totally okay for this kind of application. Nowadays, I have always a browser open. But a self-hosted version, for people whom privacy is important, would be great. Are there any self-hosted alternatives? Especially with a nice markdown editor...

I wrote a self-hosted tool that fills this need for me. Been using it since 2008. Content is written in markdown, though it doesn't have a fancy editor. Supports tagging and searching too. Since you mentioned self-hosted, I thought you might be interested.

Screenshot: http://greaterscope.net/files/tracker.png Github project: https://github.com/alanszlosek/tracker

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