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

#92

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

It looks clean and super good! Considering moving from Obsidian as it gets more refined.

A few more features IMO would be nice: (fuzzy) search; task management; math formula support; or just expose API for such development would be great as well.

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

#93
post #90

Been using simplenote for some time. Goal was to have just unobtrusive text notes, accessible via phone apps and browser, free, that allowed nesting bullet points (I write a lot of notes primarily using bullets) Simplenote.com has been great for all of these usecases.

Same for me - simplenote is awesome :)

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

#94

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

It looks clean and super good! Considering moving from Obsidian as it gets more refined. A few more features IMO would be nice: (fuzzy) search; task management; math formula support; or just expose API for such development would be great as well.

thanks. I've noted the feedback. I'll work on implementing these features.

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

#95
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. :)

exactly. most of the users just use it for text notes.

Are you sure about that? I tend to think that Evernote's differentiation is the vast feature diversity. IMO old software like this often continues to succeed because it can support the long-tail of use cases in a way that newer software does not.

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

#97
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.

Why didn't you use react native? Your website is react which would have made it easy to copy over components.

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

#98
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 elabo…

If you like Obsidian, check out Logseq. Both handle plain-text Markdown, so you can use them interchangeably. Logseq also handles Org-mode files, if that’s your thing. Everything is local, but works well with cloud storage. There’s also an iOS app. It’s worth a look. (No affiliation)

https://logseq.com/

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

#99
post #56

I 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

I use Zotero every day, but (1) self-hosting the server is not actually supported and (2) your notes are in a sqlite db.

It is a great tool. I do wish I could self host, though, and I wish the db were just an index of md files (and maybe json for bibliographic details).

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