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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Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
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Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#62I 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.
GitJournal is nice. Just wanted to check with whats your opinion about this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31580996 Did you get the permission for using "Git" mark?
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Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#63I 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.
I just pointed GitNoter at my GitJournal repo and it loaded fairly well :). I'll investigate fiddling with the settings (dates get dumped into GitNoter notes), would be nice to have them interoperate perfectly.
Thanks for GitJournal!
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#64Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have
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)
Agree: Knowledge management, not EverNote at all.
EverNote is all about dropping random files into it (images, pdfs, etc). It's where you store your bills, your receipts, your photos of wine labels. It also has a very handy web clipper extension to save web pages (whole pages, sections, or bookmarks).
I'm sure plenty of people use it differently, but I'm also quite confident (from how I've seen others describe it) that one its primary use-cases is as a big shoebox to dump everything into. You then search for that stuff through titles, tags and OCR in photos.
I use it in a fundamentally different way from Obsidian.
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#65Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have
Could you support markdown headers like these:
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date: 2021-09-14T22:51:33+02:00
modified: 2021-09-29T15:40:38+02:00
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Then it would interoperate with GitJournal perfectly I think :).
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, does this support maths notation via MathJax or Katex?
Not currently, But I've noted this. I'll see if this can be supported
Cool. If you add it, please use the \( \) and \[ \] delimiters rather than $ $ and $$ $$. The former plays better with automated processing and currencies.
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#67For me, Evernote’s killer feature is automatic OCR. (Subs that I can just upload a doc through my phone’s camera).
It looks like this doesn’t have that, unfortunately.
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#68The 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?
Read the cited sources. They were grandfathered in.
(GitHub is a good example of why the policy exists. They borrowed liberally from Git's brand; conflated Git and github.com in the minds of tens of thousands of people, maybe even millions, registered a trademark for "GitHub"; and began going after people who do the very type of borrowing that GitHub themselves did. They ultimately ended up causing issues for the Git project when it sought a trademark, since the GitHub trademark already existed at that point.)
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. Bi…
> IIRC GitHub, (BitBucket), and GitLab existed before this new (license-addendum?) Trademark policy
Trademarks are like copyright licenses where if you haven't been given explicit permission, then you don't have any. (The difference is that you can lose your trademark if you don't actively police misuse, but that's beside the point.)
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#70For me, Evernote’s killer feature is automatic OCR. (Subs that I can just upload a doc through my phone’s camera). It looks like this doesn’t have that, unfortunately.
Noted! I'll see if this feature can be added.