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.
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Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#52I love how more and more of us are using Git to store our notes, though in this case it's more coupled to GitHub than Git. If there is already a need to self-host this, then why not just hook into git and make this more generic? In fact, why is a Postgres database even needed? Please note that I'm biased. I work on [GitJournal]( https://gitjournal.io ) which is similar, but only mobile based.
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#53The name needs to change. This tool commits the cardinal sin of choosing a name GitSomething, where Git is only incidental to the domain that the product is concerned with (notetaking) and which is made worse by being yet another project that says "Git" where what it means is "we're using the GitHub API". > You may not use the Marks in the following ways: ... > In any way that indicates that Git favors one distributi…
How do GitHub and Gitlab get away with this? Have they been given permission by Conservancy? Or are they in violation?
Essentially explained by the timing of Git adopting this policy (and actually having a trademark to enforce): https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#54The name needs to change. This tool commits the cardinal sin of choosing a name GitSomething, where Git is only incidental to the domain that the product is concerned with (notetaking) and which is made worse by being yet another project that says "Git" where what it means is "we're using the GitHub API". > You may not use the Marks in the following ways: ... > In any way that indicates that Git favors one distributi…
How do GitHub and Gitlab get away with this? Have they been given permission by Conservancy? Or are they in violation?
IIRC GitHub, (BitBucket), and GitLab existed before this new (license-addendum?) Trademark policy; but may be wrong. Which is to say that I don't recall there having been such a trademark policy at the time. Isn't it actually the "Old BSD License" that retains the "may not spaketh the name" clause?
(Bitcoin is also originally a LF project; in Git, like BitTorrent, and similar to BitGold only in name, for a reason. Bitcoin initially lacked a Foundation to hold trademarks, in particular.)
The choosealicense.com table of licenses in the appendix is a service of GitHub, and GitLab also donates free CI build runner minutes for Open Source projects: https://choosealicense.com/appendix/#trademark-use :
> Trademark use
> This license explicitly states that it does NOT grant trademark rights, even though licenses without such a statement probably do not grant any implicit trademark rights.
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#55Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have
Hi, does this support maths notation via MathJax or Katex?
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#56I feel compelled to mention that Zotero [1] has been around for ages, has clients for most platforms, it's as FLOSS as it gets[2], and you are free to self-host if that's something you'd like.
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#58I feel compelled to mention that Zotero [1] has been around for ages, has clients for most platforms, it's as FLOSS as it gets[2], and you are free to self-host if that's something you'd like. [1] https://www.zotero.org/ [2] https://github.com/zotero
Can second this I love Zotero. I only use it for research papers, e-books, and notes about them and I don't use it for personal notes or saving snipits of websites and such but I could see it also working well for that.
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#59I feel compelled to mention that Zotero [1] has been around for ages, has clients for most platforms, it's as FLOSS as it gets[2], and you are free to self-host if that's something you'd like. [1] https://www.zotero.org/ [2] https://github.com/zotero
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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.
Nice idea! And Google Tasks, please.
That would be a relief to finally make a link between Google Keep and Google Tasks, something long overdue!