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Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy

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Re: Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy

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Post by PascalW »

itaysk wrote: post #46

There are so many note taking apps and yet I still can't find one I like. My requirements are simple: - Markdown - cross platform with sync - tags I have settled on SimpleNote for now, but I'm not completely happy. It's mac app is low quality and doesn't have markdown, It's open source but they ignore most of the issues. Bear Notes looks cool but wasn't cross platform. I am still looking. If this thing had phone apps…

I'm using Quiver [1] for this since some time and really love it. It's like the Evernote client but supports Markdown.

Unfortunately the client is proprietary, but the note format is open. 3rd party clients also exist, like an Android app.

[1] http://happenapps.com/

Re: Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy

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Post by pizzapill »

edanm wrote: post #66

I'd really love a good Evernote alternative, but the one feature that tends not to exist is full page bookmarking / web clipping. I want to be able to clip a full page easily into the program, which will also save a copy of whatever article I happen to be reading. I really wouldn't mind (and would even love) to roll my own notes system with vim/etc. But without full page clipping, it would be a problem. Another good…

100 % agree with everything you said.

There isn't even a app on Linux and Evernotes web interface is the worst I've ever used. I _overwrite_ important notes with bs on a regular basis because the Ajax took two minutes to load and writes to something offscreen.

But the Webclipper works most of the time. Laverna does not even have a Browser Plugin.

Re: Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy

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Post by jamesu »

edanm wrote: post #66

I'd really love a good Evernote alternative, but the one feature that tends not to exist is full page bookmarking / web clipping. I want to be able to clip a full page easily into the program, which will also save a copy of whatever article I happen to be reading. I really wouldn't mind (and would even love) to roll my own notes system with vim/etc. But without full page clipping, it would be a problem. Another good…

I really liked Evernote 3 on Mac. It had a simple interface but those really powerful html/rich text pasting abilities. One of the things that sold me on it was that I could just dump anything into evernote and process it later. With the syncing features I could even do this across multiple devices and platforms. Perfect.

As evernote advanced though, it only got worse. New features and interface changes seemed to be being stuffed in without much of a strong focus on making the core useful features good and resilient. I gave up after I lost some notes for the third time during a sync.

Most of these alternate note taking solutions I find fail miserably with rich text and web content, instead preferring markdown (which I hate for notes). Either that or they are too complicated (e.g. devonthink). And to top it off, they rarely have any good implementations of syncing or cross-platform apps.

Re: Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy

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Post by ShinTakuya »

yborg wrote: post #45
zachlatta wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emacs and plain org-mode may work, but will that be how you want to edit files in the future? It's been a decade and they still haven't figured out mobile.

I find this statement odd. "Figured out mobile" in what sense? The laptop solved the mobility issue for Emacs about 2 decades ago. If you mean "runs on Android or iOS", it's likely Emacs will still be around after one or both of those have been consigned to the scrap heap.

Not everyone wants to have to whip out their laptop every time they want to update their orgsniser. I mean I can get that before smartphones become a thing but we're supposed to be making things better and easier over time. Are you seriously trying to justify the lack of progress on that front by saying that a 20 year old technological innovation made things a little easier already? That's like claiming transport is OK with just horses even though the combustion engine exists.

Re: Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy

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Post by deagle50 »

cromantin wrote: post #48
nlawalker wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to do this, but I missed a lot of the convenient features and flexibility of OneNote too much and made my way back to it. OneNote is proprietary, with a proprietary file format, but at least it's "self hosted" (your notes live in concrete files you control, not in a service), and it's got a lot of nice features that make it a joy to use.

No local hosting on mac. On mac is either ms cloud or sharepoint, unfortunately.

This. Got me using Quiver with Syncthing pointed at the database (json). So far I like it but the iOS app requires WebDAV if you can't use Dropbox. I might set that up soon.

Re: Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy

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Post by GordonS »

tomerbd wrote: post #41

I found google keep to be the best for small notes without too much categorization, and google spreadsheet to be the best for larger scoped note taking due to the tabs.

I hit the maximum character limit in Keep notes from time to time. Quite annoying :/

Re: Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy

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Post by tomerbd »

GordonS wrote: post #79
tomerbd wrote: post #41

I found google keep to be the best for small notes without too much categorization, and google spreadsheet to be the best for larger scoped note taking due to the tabs.

I hit the maximum character limit in Keep notes from time to time. Quite annoying :/

yes also no history in google keep so i keep it for quick notes, it's really for quick notes and not more than that, like i'm in a meeting so i do very quick summaries there.

but permanent notes instead of any onenote, tomnote whatever I just use google spreadsheet, I find it very useful, because I like have a single spreadsheet for one big topic (like one spreadsheet for the company I work at) and then I separate for subsheets for subtopics, I find this method to be perfect!

subsheets could be:

1. useful urls 2. useful commands 3. administration 4. high level overview

etc.

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