For a code-snippet focused alternative with plugins for major editors and support for team libraries: https://www.cacher.io
I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
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#22I would love, love, love if I could self-host this and would happily pay a fee if it meant I got the source for the backend and could do that. Product looks great, but I will hold off until I find such an option. I have been looking for years for a viable self-hosted Evernote/OneNote replacement I can sync between devices. Takuya; You can differentiate from your competitors on business model!
You could have a look at Standard Notes. It has a self-hosted version, Markdown support through a plugin, end to end encryption, and it syncs across devices. I use the "regular" service that syncs over their servers, but the self-hosted version should work, too.
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#23The smart scroll on the editor is pretty nice. I don't know of any other Markdown app with dual view that does this.
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
But Bear is also subscription based? Which buy-once app are you using.
Yeah, but Bear has this huge following around it already and is OSX native, although it is missing e2e encryption support so Inkdrop has this going for it. As for me I'm just using sublime text with a bunch of plugins and Markor on my phone. Resilio to sync between the devices.
I also use Bear and really like it, but I don't think the fact that something already has a huge following around it should be an argument. By that rationale we'd never switch to anything new.
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#25The smart scroll on the editor is pretty nice. I don't know of any other Markdown app with dual view that does this.
Visual Studio Code does this.
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#26I would love, love, love if I could self-host this and would happily pay a fee if it meant I got the source for the backend and could do that. Product looks great, but I will hold off until I find such an option. I have been looking for years for a viable self-hosted Evernote/OneNote replacement I can sync between devices. Takuya; You can differentiate from your competitors on business model!
If I may make a suggestion: I develop Joplin [0] a similar note-taking app, and it can sync with Nextcloud or WebDAV (some have made it works with the Nginx WebDAV module for instance), allowing you to control all your data.
It may or may not have all the features of Takuya's app though.
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#27I've been using Typora which is a similar or even a better tool and it's free for now. I hope typora doesn't go the subscription/saas route. Everything is a subscription these days and you probably would be better off going with a different revenue model since the competition is heavy in the note taking market.
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#28Running a project for three years alone on the side takes a lot of discipline. So often we become 'passionate' about some projects and quickly abandon them once the initial excitement wears off. Congratulations to the author!
Eerily, I have also been building a Markdown note-taking app alone for 2 years [0]. It is also e2e encrypted, but compared to Inkdrop, needs more work on the UI. But it works perfectly as a CLI.
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#29I like these apps because I’ve been trying note taking for 30 years and have had many false starts of solo projects over the years. So when someone releases it makes me a little happy. I like markdown because the interoperability is high. I’d like a command line way to just create a new note in one line that gets stuck somewhere that can be added on or moved around later (eg, “note Inkdrop should be investigated and…
> My problem is that phones are just too slow for me to fire up and start a note How so? Is your phone really old and slow or something? On my iPhone X it takes two touches from the home screen to get into the notes app (first touch) and start a new note (second touch), and this takes about two seconds (I measured the time). Not counting the touches or time taken to unlock the phone and to get to the home screen but…
Slow in the sense of “idea->Search for app->Open app->new note->type on screen” vs “idea->alt tab to terminal->type on keyboard.”
It’s probably only 2 seconds vs 1 second. Not a huge time amount.
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#30I like these apps because I’ve been trying note taking for 30 years and have had many false starts of solo projects over the years. So when someone releases it makes me a little happy. I like markdown because the interoperability is high. I’d like a command line way to just create a new note in one line that gets stuck somewhere that can be added on or moved around later (eg, “note Inkdrop should be investigated and…
> I’d like a command line way to just create a new note in one line that gets stuck somewhere that can be added on or moved around later On the Mac, I wrote an Alfred workflow that lets me type "c this is a note" in Alfred, hit and the line is appended to a file called "cap.txt". I then go through that file at the end of the day. On iOS, I just use Reminders app's quick launch action to create a new Reminder and go t…
This is kind of what I do. But I would like a better way to sync Notes. It’s nice to go back through every once in a while to transfer to something more permanent but that takes work and messes up the date stamps for figuring out log and timeline.