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

Post by beingflo » Wed, Jun 01, 2022, 3:38 PM UTC

baggachipz wrote: post #75

I created a self-hostable, automatically syncing PWA to keep notes and checklists (more of a Google Keep clone): https://tinylist.app

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 01, 2022, 3:49 PM UTC

kushan2020 wrote: post #80

Hey it’s nice to see some more open source apps in this space. I am working on a similar project bangle.io [1] for the past 3 years and it shares similar ideology as yours - an open source note taking web app. What are you using to interface with GitHub ? In my app I am directly using its api though I did consider looking into those git libraries for web. Definitely would like to collaborate if you are interested. [1…

Post by vivekweb2013 » Wed, Jun 01, 2022, 5:10 PM UTC

bachmeier wrote: post #84

vivekweb2013 wrote: post #2

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

Just a few suggestions (some overlap with other comments). If you really want it to be an Evernote competitor, it should have: Image/file upload Web clipper (singlefile is great) OCR (Tesseract has done what I need, not sure how that compares to Evernote) Basic task management Customizable dashboard Tagging and excellent search (these are Evernote's bread and butter) WYSIWYG editing Templates Integrations And it woul…

Post by vivekweb2013 » Wed, Jun 01, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

gimme_treefiddy wrote: post #86

vivekweb2013 wrote: post #2

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

Definitely will give a go by deploying privately. Does it support markdown extensions, like GitHub flavored markdown or something.

Post by vivekweb2013 » Wed, Jun 01, 2022, 6:06 PM UTC

mike503 wrote: post #88

It's kind of amusing everyone here is talking about Evernote being amazing for dropping attachments and everything and I use it simply for text/links and hate that it wants to do all that extra stuff. :)