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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 bharani_m »

vmateixeira wrote: post #89
bharani_m wrote: post #87

I run a minimal alternative to Evernote called EmailThis [1]. You can add the bookmarklet or browser extension. It will let you save complete articles and webpages to your email inbox. If it cannot extract useful text, EmailThis will save the page as a PDF and send it as an attachment. No need to install apps or login to other 3rd party services. [1] https://www.emailthis.me

You lost me with your privacy policy

Can you tell me why it is bad?

I am actually very concerned with the privacy of the app's users. The only communications I send to your email address are the initial onboarding emails and the saved bookmarks. No drip messages, no promotional emails etc.

I guess I need to convey that better in the privacy policy. I'd appreciate any links/resources that can help me draft a better privacy policy.

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

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Post by CodeWriter23 »

bharani_m wrote: post #91
vmateixeira wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You lost me with your privacy policy

Can you tell me why it is bad? I am actually very concerned with the privacy of the app's users. The only communications I send to your email address are the initial onboarding emails and the saved bookmarks. No drip messages, no promotional emails etc. I guess I need to convey that better in the privacy policy. I'd appreciate any links/resources that can help me draft a better privacy policy.

Obviously I can't speak for @vmateixeira, but this seems pretty bad to me.

> We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.

Especially considering the numerous examples of "anonymous" datasets being de-anonymized.

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

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Post by smarinov »

MikeTheGreat wrote: post #52
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.

Orgzly ( http://www.orgzly.com/ ) works well enough for me. It can sync to DropBox, so I can put all my .org files into DropBox for replication/backups and have Orgzly read & update them. It's not full org mode for sure, but it's a solid way to read and do simple changes to my .org files on my phone.

I am not even a regular Emacs user (sorry, on the Vim side for now), and I think Orgzly is a great note-taking app. Actually the best one I've tried so far. It's true! :)

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

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Post by ernsheong »

someone13 wrote: post #67
ernsheong wrote: post #20

It doesn't do web clippings though. Incidentally, I am building https://pagedash.com to clip web pages more accurately, exactly as you saw it (via a browser extension)! Hope this helps someone.

Your sign up JS is broken - I just tried to enter my email and got a "TypeError: undefined has no properties". Looks like a cool project, though - I've wanted something like that for a while :-) (oh, and I'm using FF 55 on Linux)

My bad. I'll take a look at this soon!

Update: Fixed the FF bug. Many thanks for taking the time to report! :)

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

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Post by ernsheong »

reitanqild wrote: post #59
ernsheong wrote: post #20

It doesn't do web clippings though. Incidentally, I am building https://pagedash.com to clip web pages more accurately, exactly as you saw it (via a browser extension)! Hope this helps someone.

Is it similar to scrapbook on Firefox? (Scrapbook was one of the winners of the extension competions when Firefox introduces extensions IIRC. Still worked last I tried.)

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll need to check out what Scrapbook is all about :)

Edit: Okay, looks similar. Except that PageDash lives on the cloud. And hopefully with that comes multi-device support in the future. And also hopefully a much better UI.

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

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Post by trextrex »

Last I checked Laverna, they had really serious issues with losing data after every update or so. I stopped using it after encountering one of these. Looks like a lot of these issues are still open:

https://github.com/Laverna/laverna/issues/547

https://github.com/Laverna/laverna/issues/683

https://github.com/Laverna/laverna/issues/678

https://github.com/Laverna/laverna/issues/675

https://github.com/Laverna/laverna/issues/770

https://github.com/Laverna/laverna/issues/747

Edit: Formatting

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

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Post by 5_minutes »

yeasayer wrote: post #10

One of the biggest use cases of Evernote for me – OCR notes with search. All my important checks, slips and papers are going there. It's seems that Laverna doesn't have this feature. So it's not an alternative for me.

Same here, its just awesome to scan all your stuff and being able to retrieve it
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