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Re: Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

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This looks cool. At first pass, I have one big question: are there any facilities or even just plumbing for syncing between installs / front-ends? SaaS/cloud approaches have real downsides in terms of ownership but the big upside is access from multiple points/devices (home desktop, browser on office machine, personal laptop, mobile device, etc). Obviously SaaS isn't the only way to do that, centralizing around self-…

I carefully designed the architecture, which is very flexible. The "backend" is currently running on web worker & service worker. It should be possible to deploy it to a web-standard runtime environment for self-hosting. P2P synchronization based on CRDT is on the roadmap.

Sweet. The first question I had when reading the readme was, “Is there CRDT?”

Re: Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

#94
post #93

This post complains about Notion being slow, but when I try out the demo myself Eidos is slow as molasses. Forms are populated full seconds after I write in them, and I accidentally created several tables on accident because they again took multiple seconds to exist.

I sorry for your experience. It works smoothly for me and hasn't been fully tested yet

Re: Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

#95

This looks really cool! The only thing that seems to be missing is sync, since SQLite doesn't work well with SyncThing et al. Something like cr-sqlite could potentially fix that though, although I'd prefer just plain markdown files for the backend.

I've tried it, but it didn't work well together, still looking for a solution, CRDT is the hard part, haha.
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