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Re: Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

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In case anyone else is confused, this is not related to eidos interactive, which has been now defunct for 14 years[1] (merged with square enix). [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidos_Interactive

Eidos Montreal was active just 2 years ago. I think their Eidos-Labs research department is still active. Personally, starting a new app called Eidos feels like a headache in the making.

Thank you for the information. Eidos Space should be safe. I will consider this issue carefully.

Re: Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

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post #29

In case anyone else is confused, this is not related to eidos interactive, which has been now defunct for 14 years[1] (merged with square enix). [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidos_Interactive

Lara Croft is gonna kick down their doors and enforce her trademark.

Re: Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

#43
post #36

As a heads up, this seems to break completely if any of a couple of different Chrome extensions I have are enabled (for example, Simplify - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/simplify-copilot-au... ). Also, maybe it's just me, but I feel like the sqlite-based thing is, if anything, kind of a downside. Use it for caching and calculation, sure, but I want the source of truth to be just plain markdown files I can…

I know many note-taking users like the concept of markdown and plain text. So do I. However, I think plain text has its limitations. There are many other types of structured data in life. Just like Word and Excel, they have different responsibilities. No one worries that Excel will not work in a few decades because it's just an offline software. Similarly, no one worries that SQLite will be unable to open or view bec…

My general answer to this is to make sure whatever thing I'm building understands Pg COPY TSV syntax - specified by https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-copy.html under 'text format' - and export to/import from that.

It's nice to have something that plays nicely with awk/cut/diff/etc. and can be committed into a git (or elsevcs) repo.

(I'm not specifically wed to COPY as the form, but given it's well known and documented I've found it a good default)

Re: Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

#44

This appears to be using a version of babel that allows ACE FYI. @babel/traverse https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-67hx-6x53-jw92

> Users that only compile trusted code are not impacted.

Doesn't Babel typically only compile your source code, and not what's in node_modules? I guess it depends if you're compiling single files, leaving import statements as they are; or creating a single bundle for the browser that includes external dependencies. For the latter, I imagine there's a chance some malicious package could exploit this.

Re: Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

#45
post #29

In case anyone else is confused, this is not related to eidos interactive, which has been now defunct for 14 years[1] (merged with square enix). [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidos_Interactive

Lara Croft is gonna kick down their doors and enforce her trademark.

I still think of Tomb Raider as being Core Design

Re: Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

#48
post #5

You maybe want to check the trademarks for this name, there are some for it. Not that this must become a problem, but it's better to avoid potential problems early. Besides that, SQLite seems promising, but not sure how exactly this relates to everything. The website is talking about saving in browser, and there is no release on the GitHub. Is this something running in browser only?

Thanks for the reminder. I know this makes SEO more challenging, and it also reminds people of a certain game company, but I really love this concept, which originates from the Plato's theory of forms, and it pairs perfectly with the eidos.space domain name. While it may not be a great business name, the concept itself is exciting. Eidos is deployed on Cloudflare Pages. it's a purely frontend project and the web is o…

Sorry I’m a bit confused. You describe this as an offline alternative to Notion, but there are also some optional components that run on serverless?

Re: Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

#49
post #36

As a heads up, this seems to break completely if any of a couple of different Chrome extensions I have are enabled (for example, Simplify - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/simplify-copilot-au... ). Also, maybe it's just me, but I feel like the sqlite-based thing is, if anything, kind of a downside. Use it for caching and calculation, sure, but I want the source of truth to be just plain markdown files I can…

I know many note-taking users like the concept of markdown and plain text. So do I. However, I think plain text has its limitations. There are many other types of structured data in life. Just like Word and Excel, they have different responsibilities. No one worries that Excel will not work in a few decades because it's just an offline software. Similarly, no one worries that SQLite will be unable to open or view bec…

SQLite won't stop working but your format is proprietary. A markdown can be understood even without rendering to HTML but your tables are useless for an user without your app.
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