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Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by lolive »

vivekweb2013 wrote: post #7
pantulis wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand that this allows you to manage collections of notes in Markdown format backed up to a Git repository. This is nice and I consider this to be useful, but I would suggest not to position it against Evernote but against knowledge management tools for teams (internal wikis, confluences of the world, etc)

yeah I agree. This is really the knowledge management tool

When I presented Obsidian to a friend, and he told me that it was just a note-taking app, I was quite shocked by [what I consider to be] such a lack of consideration. Because I really use Obsidian as my second memory [marketing definitely worked on me, it seems :)].

Anyway... I have never used EverNote (==note taking?). And, as you have read, I am reaaaaally in Obsidian (==knowledge management?).

Can any of you elaborate of the conceptual difference between both?

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by vivekweb2013 »

glook wrote: post #20
vivekweb2013 wrote: post #2

Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have

You don't have to compare this to Evernote. I really like what you have done so far. The preview of the MD is fantastic. Feels hard enough for me to find just that! I love the use of GitHub. I'm in!

Thanks so much for the kind words

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by stavros »

hohloma wrote: post #4

Another alternative that Im using and very happy with - Joplin ( https://joplinapp.org/ ). Also provides import from Evernote which mostly worked in my case.

I use Joplin as well. I wrote a small (fairly ad-hoc) script to turn a Joplin database into a Zola/Gitbook static site:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/notes/

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by vivekweb2013 »

joe8756438 wrote: post #14
vivekweb2013 wrote: post #2

Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have

Looks really cool, congrats on the launch! How would multiplayer notes work? Assuming everyone has access to the repo.

Thanks. Any number of users can use GitNoter simultaneously on any number of devices against a single repo as long as all of them has write access to the repository.

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by choletentent »

mgdlbp wrote: post #19
sandgiant wrote: post #12

Thanks for sharing, but almost all "alternatives to Evernote" lack some of the most important (to me) features like web clipping, OCR and related notes. The only real alternative to Evernote I've found is DEVONthink.

These days I tend to rely on archive.org (+ archive.today) and a plain link rather than web clipping tools. I just find it more useful coming back later to have access to the full fidelity of a page and its context. It also feels appropriate to be publicly preserving parts of the web that you've found useful enough to note down. As someone at archive.org said, 'If you see something, save something.' Edit: n.b. archiv…

Interesting. But how do you keep track of archive links that are relevant to you?

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by vivekweb2013 »

dicknuckle wrote: post #11
vivekweb2013 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree, but GitNoter is self hosted webapp it does not require any desktop/mobile client. It can be directly accessible with the browser. Thanks for the feedback. I'll check if import from evernote can be added as a feature to GitNoter.

I realize this is probably a big ask, but an import from Google Keep would be a huge plus. Google eventually kills off EVERYTHING good.

yes right. I'm thinking of implementing add-ons for all popular note taking services like google, evernote, onenote etc so that the notes can be imported using gitnoter.

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by caymanjim »

vivekweb2013 wrote: post #9
hohloma wrote: post #4

Another alternative that Im using and very happy with - Joplin ( https://joplinapp.org/ ). Also provides import from Evernote which mostly worked in my case.

Agree, but GitNoter is self hosted webapp it does not require any desktop/mobile client. It can be directly accessible with the browser. Thanks for the feedback. I'll check if import from evernote can be added as a feature to GitNoter.

I was pretty disappointed when I set up a Joplin server only to discover there was no web UI. The desktop and mobile clients aren't bad, but if I can't also quickly get to the content via a browser, I'll never use it. It never even dawned on me before installing that there wouldn't be a web UI.

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by vivekweb2013 »

Kalanos wrote: post #29

Does it store images? Are you going to make a mobile app?

You can add the images inside markdown using existing image url. The image upload is not implemented yet. I've noted it & I'll work on this functionality

Thanks for showing interest in the mobile app. I'm working on the android app prototype. You will see the app on play store soon.

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