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Re: Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

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Post by I_am_tiberius »

fabiospampinato wrote: post #61
qwerty456127 wrote: post #30

I wish somebody would write a good comparative review of all the note-taking, information organization and outlining apps... I'm in constant search of the one that would actually suit my preferences. Perhaps this is the one (but chances are it's not). Let's take a look...

I have made something like that [1] for my note-taking app. It doesn't currently include Trillium though, and it may be skewed towards the features I'm personally interested in, but if somebody would like to help make it better I'm all ears. [1] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable#comparison

Turtl is missing.

Re: Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

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Post by ymgch »

fabiospampinato wrote: post #61
qwerty456127 wrote: post #30

I wish somebody would write a good comparative review of all the note-taking, information organization and outlining apps... I'm in constant search of the one that would actually suit my preferences. Perhaps this is the one (but chances are it's not). Let's take a look...

I have made something like that [1] for my note-taking app. It doesn't currently include Trillium though, and it may be skewed towards the features I'm personally interested in, but if somebody would like to help make it better I'm all ears. [1] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable#comparison

Good!

Re: Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

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Post by laurent123456 »

fabiospampinato wrote: post #61
qwerty456127 wrote: post #30

I wish somebody would write a good comparative review of all the note-taking, information organization and outlining apps... I'm in constant search of the one that would actually suit my preferences. Perhaps this is the one (but chances are it's not). Let's take a look...

I have made something like that [1] for my note-taking app. It doesn't currently include Trillium though, and it may be skewed towards the features I'm personally interested in, but if somebody would like to help make it better I'm all ears. [1] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable#comparison

It's a good start but since it's meant to compare your own note taking app to others it's indeed a bit biased. Maybe make it easier for others to contribute to the table, and add a few missing features (for instance web clipper is not in the list). Also the negative categories like "no bloat", "no wysiwyg" being marked a positive for your app is a bit weird. Many users will not see a web clipper or wysiwyg as bloat.

Re: Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

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Post by dagurp »

bayindirh wrote: post #77

First of all, congrats. It looks like a nice application with good thought out features. I've esp. liked central syncing, source code capabilities and markdown. I personally use Zim [0] at work, which is pretty dependable, extensible and mature. Zim also builds a personal knowledge base with exports, so you can learn from its approaches I think. However, I personally don't prefer to use electron applications, so Tril…

I'm a zim user too but looking to replace it. Why is Electron a deal breaker for you? (Also, in case you didn't notice, you can host Trilium on a server if you want to)

Re: Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

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Post by The_Colonel »

laurent123456 wrote: post #90

The releases could be improved using electron-builder. You'd then have one executable file, instead of thousands of node_modules files.

You're right. I kept it like this as a debugging solution of last resort. But having single ASAR is probably more useful for regular use.

Re: Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

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Post by The_Colonel »

mkl wrote: post #29

The_Colonel, could handwritten notes fit into Trilium? It's technically possible, with PointerEvents to get pressure, but I'm wondering about whether it would fit with your goals for the project. I'm guessing it would need to be another type of note, separate from the CKEditor ones, or maybe some kind of drawing area plugin making space within a rich text note.

Yes, some kind of drawing is planned, but nothing concrete yet. Ideally I'd use some library because it's probably not feasible for me to implement it all by myself.

Re: Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

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Post by thunderbong »

Just played around with it. Really nice application and seems very comprehensive. I'll need to spend some more time with it though.

I was especially keen on the syncing to work, but unfortunately kept getting a 'DB not initialized' error on the server. I'll raise an issue for it.

Wonderful application overall. Congratulations.

Re: Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

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Post by bayindirh »

dagurp wrote: post #94
bayindirh wrote: post #77

First of all, congrats. It looks like a nice application with good thought out features. I've esp. liked central syncing, source code capabilities and markdown. I personally use Zim [0] at work, which is pretty dependable, extensible and mature. Zim also builds a personal knowledge base with exports, so you can learn from its approaches I think. However, I personally don't prefer to use electron applications, so Tril…

I'm a zim user too but looking to replace it. Why is Electron a deal breaker for you? (Also, in case you didn't notice, you can host Trilium on a server if you want to)

I'm an old folk in terms of computer history [0], and while my computers are not resource constrained, I'm resource conscious. Also, I'm a high performance computing sysadmin and researcher, so I know what computers can do with what amount of resources.

I'm extremely annoyed by the fact of running a complete browser engine and sacrifice half gigabytes of memory and a lot of storage (I cannot remember the exact size of Atom) just for a text editor or any other software with the same caliber.

Also, Electron consumes more resources than it needs. When running on any Electron app on my Mac, I generally get a notification about its power usage too.

e.g.: Atom is not as powerful as Eclipse, but needs more resources per feature. BBEdit is much lighter and compact, and is nearly as useful for me as Atom, and I can run Eclipse if I need a full fledged IDE.

Server-only deployment is nice, but I'd rather sync the data, because I'm not always online while taking notes, and if I'm going to keep my data centralized, I'd rather keep it at my home, and I don't have enough upload bandwidth to serve anything like Trillium.

BTW, Why are you trying to replace Zim? I'm interested in your reasons.

I'm open to and interested in discussion and, I'd happily stand corrected if I'm mistaken.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18839788

Re: Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

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Post by AJRF »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #30

I wish somebody would write a good comparative review of all the note-taking, information organization and outlining apps... I'm in constant search of the one that would actually suit my preferences. Perhaps this is the one (but chances are it's not). Let's take a look...

I came across this recently which was amazing.

It's iOS specific but the features might let you filter by features you need;

http://brettterpstra.com/ios-text-editors/

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